The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-21
THE SUGAR PROBLEM:
Edited by DR. DAVID |

Many of you are very cross at the profiteers because of the present un- heard-of prices of sugar. In the course of time our descendants will say that 'all things work together for good and that it sometimes takes club to 0beat sense into the brains of people with a bad habit.
 Let me tell you something about sugar: 100 years ago there was con- stunned in this country an average of nine pounds of commercial sugar per annum per person. An operation to remove the tonsils was rare, indeed, because unnecessary. Today the aver age consumption of sugar is ninety pounds per person and that average is going up rapidly. This means that some people use about 200 pounds per annum because there are a great many who do not use 10 pounds and vastly more who do not use 25 pounds per annum. The average in my family is about 20 pounds, which Is less than one ounce per day.
 After a careful estimate and watching the effect of even that amount, we are going to cut 1t down and as soon as possible cut out the highly refined sugar altogether.
 In the food that we eat, nature supplies all the sugar required by our tissues for maintaining perfect health. When we force into that perfectly adjusted chemical laboratory, our stomach, more of any one element thar is needed, 1t must be thrown out. When we take commercial sugar in such quantities as some do, the organs of elimination are unable to get rid of all of it. Instead of be- ing digested, it ferments, develops | acids, gas, and. disease, a lack of ease. Before starch can be digested l it must be converted into dextrin and grape sugar. If we eat bread, potatoes, peas, bananas. oatmeal or | any other starchy food and then a lot l of jelly, jam, cake or pie and then finish off with some candy, we have a 1 fine mixture for distillery and the process of fermentation will start very quickly.
 Nature could use some of the starches of such a mixture, but when 1 you supply it with the sugar already
 made. the laboratory refuses to make l more sugar out of the starch, so, | like all strikes, the process of waste 1 and destruction begins. all kinds of i trouble follows, a great riot of pain | and sometimes much gas is devel- l oped that 1t Is called an attack of
 acute indigestion" From that the | workers, or policemen of the body the glands, are reduced in strength | and some of the poisons get into the | blood.
 The policemen, the glands, con- | tinue to fight va1iantlys especially I those two very important ones To-
 cated in the throat and called ton sils' We keep eating sugar, candy | starches, cakes, pies and jams unti
 the doctor says we have tonsilitis ol
 inflammation of the q. tonsiIs. Time
 after time this Is repeated that they
 themselves throw off poisons and
 make more disease.
 Instead of removing the cause anG
 nursing the tonsils back to healtt
 and usefulness they are usually cut ou
 and the body is no longer protected |, For a time there is a decided i'm provement in the health, but, 1ool out for the future; unless the con ! sumption of sugar and sugar makin, , food is cut down there will be great
 CT trouble than before.
 Over eating causes more death , than starvation and the wrong com , bination of foods cause more diseas than all the germs in the universe. } If children are taught to properl
 chew their food and you give then
 the right kind, they will not cray 5 candies as they otherwise would. l have watched so many people ca l their way back to good health afte t all hope had been abandoned that have about come to the conclusion
 that any disease of the human bod
 that is not due to mechanical cause 3 can be cured by the right diet an
 right living, when the blood has no
 been too seriously {, poisoned or i'm k poverished.
 Il CLUB NOTES.
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 S Dear Doctor Reeder:
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