INSURING GOOD DIGESTION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1934, 17 December 1913, Page 5

INSURING GOOD DIGESTION

I ' IMPORTANCE OF PREVENTING. [ FOOD FERMENTATION IN STOMACH. :. Good digestion usually means ■ gce-a health, i So long as the stomach, does its work'-' properly disease can fiml no lodgment'in the human system; the liver, Imliroys, and intestines will perform their work perfectly and remain in perfect health: but interfere. with the proper digestion of food and an unending tram of troubles is .set in motion. -About the only thing 1 hat will upset the stomach and interfere with-the digestion is an excess of acid, usually caused by food fermentation. Food fermentation is due ta chemical -action in the fo-od itself. This fermentation causes the formation ill gas, or.wind, as well as acid, rosultui3 in tne unnatural distention of tho stomach and the- l>urnin;r by the acid of the delicate lining of thesiomacli. ?;. Medicine.? and tonics cannot relieve this 'condition—they usually make it worse. ■'The;i'eriuenti\tion and acid are to blame, ami tlisso must bo overcome and'"' prevented by taking alter mealj half a tea«peonfiil"of m'snraied magnesia in a little hot or coin water. Physicians recommend blsnrated magnssia especially; fofcamc it stops or prevents fermentation of food nnd neutralises (he acid insanity, nwkiiiß il Wand and harmless, without irritating nr up;.ettuw the stomach in any way. (jet a little uisirratod mssuesia from your chemist and try it the next lime your /loorl ferments ami upset!.' your ' Nc-ifr how auiekly the sicld is neutralised. | and how soon rem forget thai- you have I 'such-a- thins.as.a stomacli.—Advt..