Outwitting Indigestion.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 331, 12 January 1937, Page 2

Outwitting Indigestion.

‘‘There are probably as many idiosyncrasies of digestion as there are people who suffer from them. If indigestion bothers you, try to find out the root of the trouble,” writes Dr E. V. McCollum, Ph.D., in McCall’s of America. *‘Can it be your diet? Possibly, although indigestion is less often the fault of the food w© eat than most people believe. A well-balanced diet, supplying a generous amount of the protective foods—milk, eggs, and leafy vegetables particularly—plenty of nourishment and plenty of bulk, should ‘set well’ in any digestive tract, granted there is no inflamed or diseased condition requiring the attention of a doctor and a special dietary. “No; most heartburn. lum;p-in-throat, gas, logyness and the other accompaniments of poor digestion can be traced back—not to the unreasonable rebellion of our stomachs —but to our own nervous and emotional states, and even our mental attiude. “The digestive tract is threaded throughout with nerve connections, and will go a good job or a poor job according to the kind of nervous ctimulatipn it receives. “Bring only the happiest subjects to the table. Leave your worries and anxieties somewhere else. And learn to laugh. Good humour is the .■greatest single aid to good digestion. “Spotlighting digestion, is another

frequent cause of trouble. The stomach and intestines, like the lungs and heart, have a predilection for privacy, and will act up under too much attention.”