The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-19
THE, INFLUENCE or BALONEY ON .,---- n ACIDOSIE

Latter day food or diet professors both with in md without the medical ranks can naui oil and te1I vou like lightning calculators or vauoe. yiiIe voeis precisely which items of any Diil or fare make your system acid and which makc max your system alkaline. So adept are they at tnis
 that they have got lot of w,seac.ess ntU ,ndend with trepidation lest they go into spasms oI coma before the meal is over, from acidosls or o
 something. If occasionally one oi tnese ,aon n faltcrs in his faith in the yogis, some quack
 waving his title of Doctor all over the place
 is sure to bring the straggler back to ms sense: lessness by telling him his blood contains Io0 much acd ,., L... Far be 1t from me to grapple with any chem st over a question of chemistry, but yieid to nobody on q question of human physiology, anu | know darn well that no physiologist VIII o's. nute my assertion that acidosis simply does not happen from the habit or custom or eatins meat That is one undebatable fact that mas
 been established by the greatest exper'me,ns t,0s ever made upon human subjects. namely, the scientific observation and study by corps or experts of Messrs Stefansson and Anderscn ! while they subsisted for year on an exciusiVe
 meat diet. . -, .a I am aware that acidosis can happen, ana ! when it does happen it IS grave state wnicn T demands heroic emergency measures. 6ut am equally certain no competent physician or health expert will contradict me when assert |that so far we know state of acidosis IS in- variably q consequence Of some serious 'i'heSs and never cause of illness. | Theoretically. if you arc willing to monkey with your nutrition conjcctural basis, the normal acid base acid-alkaIi balance or the blood and tissues may swing now little more to the acid side, now 6 little moro to the alkal- | inc side, from day to day or from hour 10 nour' l and this Is probably the normal course, depend- l ing not alone upon the character of the food | one cats but upon other daily activities such ! as exercise, sweating, water drinking. But all l this is automatically regulated, just as Is the | height of the blood pressure or the teinpera- | ture of the body. and sensible folk will never bother their heads about it.
 | No one likes baloney more than do when 1t Is not stale or not sliced too thick But in the interest of cverybodys health think 1t is high time to put an end to all this baloney the char | latans are handing out in reference to acidosis' | can't for the life of me understand why the | meat people stand back as though ashamed of themselves while the fruit people sell the public this obsession about acidoss.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Sources of Arsenic Poisoning You said that there arc many ways in which
 one may he exposed to chronic arsenic pCiscn-
 Ing now wadays. Please tell what some or tncsc
 ways are. (S Y. PD
 Answer--Worklng In grecphousc where green
 ny spray and black leaf 4@are used. Spraying fruit trees or your own garden With sprays
 containing arsenic. Handling sheep dip. Con- tact with furs that have been cured with nr-
 senic Likewise feather. Contamination of cloth- Ing by arsenic in moth preventivcs. Handling
 cotton contaminated byarsenc used to combat boil weeyil.
 The Ills Called Ithcumatism
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 Called Ithenn,atism." and since reading h sine
 k more cheerful than for inai'y months. When
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 stamped addressed cnyeIOpe for which apollo.
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 stamped addressed envelope. but no clipping. How Legs
 Your rcpvoof Co woman whose child bad bccn cared Of bOw legs 10 yeaFs ago also np.
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 sJn Dishf hnte copy Of that prescription We
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 ABHwef--We are glad to send advice and In.
 girurtl0nn for the treatment of blnokheads and
 pinlples tncne) to any reader who asks for il
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