FRUIT EATING.

Evening Star, Issue 3731, 6 February 1875, Page 3

FRUIT EATING.

To the Editor. SlB,—A very mistaken idea has found a lodgment in the minds of many otherwise sensible persons, to wit, that summer complaints, the generic term under which the disorders peculiar to the season arc known, are mainly caused by the use of fruit, and that the wise and safe plan is to prohibit its use altogether. This method, which neglects.to take advantage of one of the most beneficent provisions for man’s use, is detrimental to health. When fruit does harm, it is because it is eaten at improper times, iu improper quantities, or before it is ripened and fit for the human stomach. A distinguished physician has said that if his patients would make a practice of eating a couple of good oranges before breakfast from February till June, his practice would be gone. The principal evil is that we do not eat enough of fruit—that we injure its finer qualities with sugar—that we drown them in cream. We need the medicinal action of the pure fruit acids in our system, and their cooling, corrective influence. —I am, &c., S. G. 0. Dunedin, February 5.