Miscellaneous.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 170, 5 July 1909, Page 3

Miscellaneous.

TEETH AND DIET One of the foremost dental surgeons tells us that the reason why the present generation possesses such bad teeth can only be attributed to the fact that the system of dietary is all wrong.

He advisea us to eat for breakfast, bacon, or bacon and eggs, baked or toasted bread, and only drink tea and coffee when you have finished your meal, not during its course. For lunch or dinner the eurgeon advisea a meat of Borne sort, followed by a sweet pudding, and then fruit. For the last meal, meat, ship's biscuit and butter, and an apple. It will surprise you to hear that he wholly objects to farinaceous diets, such as porridge, wheat cakes, and the like, for the reason, he decares. that if not followed by a fruit diet, which cleanses the teeth from deposits of food matter, the immediate consequence will be to depirve the digestive organs of their lubricity, with an ultimate reaction occurring in the teeth. The perfect tooth, without fissures. or clefts or pits, is rarely found, except among children who have teen very carefully watched by their parents during their years of rearing. Faulty molecular structure of :heteeth is accentuate: by the mischievous dietary of th" children. Many litlL <.:,*s are- allowed to grind up quantities of bard cake when they stage. As they g'ow older in years, chocolates ar" showered upon them, ar.d so th'- poor n:o!ar> ar" given no chance Of all th" foods which have a bad c-ffc-t upr.n the teeth, starch and sugar foods are the worst and those who have ear'- of children or who are themselves addicted to eating starch and sugar foods, should n"ver omit co cleanse the teeiii. Mastb-n'lon is > :::■ <>f th" conditions necessary ;o a proper exercise of the r!igest:ve functions, and consequent;. - to th" attainment and [.reservation of perfect bodily health. When one cats sof< foods, it is .'ertain thai littl" gastric juice is produced, and if sugar forms a main constituent of these foods, the Vjuality of the juice , vuded is very spcdily vitiated. Vegetarians hav rarely good teeth. for th" reason that their fo"ds an not of sufficient hardness to produce a sufficient quantity of ga:- - tric fluid to lubricate th" digestive organs proper:;.'. show signs of decay. It you must indulge in farinaceous foe.ds, and have what is known as a "sweet tooth," you must neutralise their effects upon the teeth with fruit.