The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-15

questions OF general InNtLts'
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his column.
very reason you like it, bad for
you. Meat, according to this
school, ruins your kidneys; pie
gives you Indigestion and diabetes
and makes you fat, but roots and
tubers and the green tops Of out
landish vegetables, they are good
for you.
Nothing could illustrate this
better than the all too timorous
attitude towards tea and coffee.
Something can be said in favor
Of objections TO alcoholic bever-
ages and tobacco; these common
habits Of mankind do carry some
seeds of danger. But tea and
coffee are so beneficial and harm
less that any argument against
their use is almost entirely emo
tional and based on the funda-
mental aversion any body has
to seeing somebody else have
a good time.
The habit Of deprecating their
use goes back a long way. AS
early as 1910 tea leaves were
brought from Bantam TO Holland
and introduced to France and
England a few years later. This
cup which cheered, but did not in
toxicate, had a wide appeal and
by 1850 four millions of pounds
were imported into England.
Coffee was soon after almost as
popular. Coffee houses were set
up where friends met in public
to discuss life and letters over the
steaming cup. Such a spectacle
of human happiness was not long
neglected by the moralists.
Hear the croakings of James
Hannay, merchant of Portsmouth,
in 1857.
From its use, men seem TO
have lost their stature and women
their beauty. Your very chamber
maids have lost their bloom, ]
suppose by drinking tea"
You see, it's the same old line.
He did not know that tea had any
bad effects, but it gave people
pleasure, so he made up some bad
effects. There is not the slightest
evidence that tea or coffee stunts
growth or ruins the complexion,
but that didn't stop him from
saying they did.
The custom still goes on. | get
letters all the time from people
who have been frightened by well.
intentioned friends, that coffee
causes high blood pressure, that
1t drives you to nervous disease
and filters, that it causes in
somnia and thus leads to neuras-
thenia.
Let US turn TO real science on
the subject.
In general all the effects Of tea
and coffee are based on their ac-
ton that they make the blood
flow more rapidly through certain
organs-especially the brain, the
heart and the kidneys. This in
creased blood flow makes them
function better.
Effects of Beverages
There seems besides the better
circulation 10 be a direct stimula-
ton by tea and coffee on the cells
of the brain and heart. This ac-
ton on the brain is why they pro-
mote wakefulness and a sense Of
we'll being. They increase the
output of the heart and for this
reason are especially valuable in
popping up old people.
Neither tea or coffee have any
effect on blood pressure whatever.
Or at least very little. To accuse
them Of causing high blood pres
sure is nonsense.
The older you get the better
ga and coffee are for you. They
strengthen your heart and keep
you cheerful with a young out
look.
Of course their use can be
abused. Very nervous people who
dread insomnia should avoid them
in the evening, largely because II
they have a bad night they can
blame it on the coffee when the
real cause is something deeper in
the nervous system.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Z. Sis there any other cause
for tar colored stool besides can
GER condition Of the bowel ? Would
this cause an ache in the left side?
Answer: The commonest cause
Of tar eolored, or bloody stool
is ulcer Of the stomach. There are
half dozen other causes.