Evening star., 1925-09-18
Answers to Food Questions

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l have your letter advising me about
diet for chronic hyperacidity. You
advised me to avoid irritating foods.
Will you please give me as complete
list of foods that irritate the stom-
ach as possible" Should the flour you
mention 10 he mixed with the vege
table purees be cooked or just merely
mixed without cooking with milk?
Can grape sugar he used in hyper
acidity? Does olive oil aid or retard
digestion? Does olive oil or butter
contain any of the yitaminso Would
taking an ounce of olive oil with
meals have an i'll effect on one with
weak heart? 1t seems to stimulate
my heart and make it beat faster
after taking. Do you think this comes
from indigestion? Can l use unsweet-
sned grape juice with hyperacidity?-
j. H. r.
: It Is impossible to give complete
list of foods that irritate the stomach
for the reason that some might frrl-
tate in one case, others In another.
II is possible. however, to give gen
eral list of foods that might be irrl-
tating, as for example coarse Vege-
tables that have not been carefully
cooked, very highly favored foods and
very hot foods. Some cases cannot
take acid fruits. Others must avoid
tomatoes and rhubarb, also vinegar
and table salt. To make the vegetable
pureeS, prepare the thickened milk
first Melt the butter, rub the flour in
smoothly and pour the milk on while
the mixture is on the fire stirring all
the time Cook in the inner part of
double boiler for 15 or 20 minutes and
then add to the strained vegetable
rulp Grape sugar may be used al
though the most practical fluids for
cane sugar are malt sugar and honey.
The olive oil does not retard digestion
unless the fat-digesting portion OF the
system is out of order. 1t may be SAID.
in general, however, that all fats
delay food in the stomach Both olive
oil and butter contain one of the i'm
portant vitamins. The reason for the
heart stimulation after taking olive
oil is probably indigestion. I suggest
that YOU discontinue this practice.
have been troubled with gas in
the stomach and bowels all Summer
and my diet, which consists mostly of
fresh vegetables and fruit, doesn't
seem to correct this condition. Can
you tell me the cause of this, and
will you kindly send me strict diet
menu, as this condition worries me
considerably? 1 eat no meats or pas.
tries and nothing but wheat or rye
hread,-Mrs. L. S.
Gas in either stomach or bowels may
arise from any number Of different
forms of indigestion. The most COM
mon is what is known as acid indi-
gestion. On the other hand, similar
symptoms may appear as result OF
quite different conditions. You will
see from this that I can only guess at
a diet il l attempt to give you one
without knowing a little more about
your case. If you are in touch with
some one who can give you an idea OF
the form of indigestion from which
YOU are suffering | can send you
suggested diet I realize that this is
not giving you much practical help,
hut feel sure that you understand
that | do not wish to suggest a diet
without the actual knowledge on
which to base it.
Just by way OF offering one general
suggestion might say that it occurs
TO me that you may be limiting your
diet too closely to fruits and vege-
tables. While you should by all means
eat what is known as easily digested
food, think that the chances are
YOU would be better for taking what
is known as an all-round mixed diet.
| myself advocate reasonable
amount of meat as one part Of such
a diet unless. of course, there Is some
individual reason against 1t.
What l have in mind Is simple
and digestible diet as the following:
For breakfast. fruit juice or cooked
strained fruit-sweet apples or prune
nulp. Crisp and prepared cereals,
fakes, puffs or shreds with top milk
and no sugar. One main dish such
as eggs, If they agree, with broiled
tomatoes or some other form of fresh
vegetable. Crisp dry toast, buttered
ut the table, coffee with one lump of
sugar and hot milk instead of cream.
For luncheon a cream OF vegetable
roup with no meat stock or carefully
prepared cheese dish with the cheese
fnelv ground and melted in the hot
sauce, crisp rolls or bread at least "a
hours old with "A moderate quantity of
butter dessert of fresh fruit or of
?ornstarch or iunket or tapioca with
very little sugar. A cup Of clear tea
with lemon and no sugar. For dinner,