AFRAID TO EAT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 99, 1 April 1916, Page 3

AFRAID TO EAT.

WEALTHY DYSPEPTIC DIES OK STARVATION. An inquest was recently held upon a wealthy man who had died- of starvation. He was a victim of digestive trouble and afraid to eat because of the pain which always followed. This tragic .proof of the folly of dieting should s.er,ve as a warning to those of our readers who experience pain and unpleasantness after eating. ;it should be remembered that indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, flatulence and wind are usually/but symptoms of excessive acidity and food fermentation. The acid retards digestion, turns the food sour and causes fermentation and wind- Obviously, therefore, it is acidity which is the root cause of practically all forms of digestive and stomach trouble and that is why physicians advise sufferers to take bisurate,| magnesia after meals. Bisurated. magnesia is not a drug or a medicine, but an antacid and food corrective which can be obtained from high-da.--chemists everywhere. Half a teaspoonful taken in a little water after meals is sufficient to instantly neutralise acidity and .prevent all possibility of the food fermenting, and if dyspeptics would Only adopt this simple precaution they would soon find drug taking and dieting unnecessary; bisurated magnesia wmdd enable 'them to seat .heafty meals without fear of pain to lollow.x