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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 89, 10 April 1900, Page 4

INDIGESTION. I

Indigestion is sometimes looked upon as a triffling ailment, of little importance, and easy to cure. Needless to say this is the view of those who are not on intimate terms with the complaint. To keep dyspepsia at bay we need exercise. The muscles degenerate and . become flaccid if a too sedentary life is led. Dressmakers and shop girls are great sufferers from dyspepsia. It ■ need hardly be said that the exercise should be in the open, air, for this, besides strengthening the muscles, purifies and enriches the blood, and assists it to secrete the ferments for digestion. ] But besides this sort of exercise another is equally necessary, and is equally under our own control to use for the benefit of our assimilative . functions. This is the exercise of the jaws in chewing. We can injure any kind of machine by ill-using it, and we can overstrain and injure the digestive apparatus by setting it to work on food not properly prepared for it to act upon. The mouth is a mill in which food should be partly dissolved by the saliva and thoroughly ground by the molars before being passed on to the stomach. Masticulation excites the salivary glands to act, and grinds the food so that it can be easily penetrated by the ferments. Mr. Gladstone is said never to have swallowed a morsel of meat without giving it 33 bites ! And to this fact his phenomenal health in old age was ascribed. " But someoue may say, "if your teeth are gone what are jou to do Why,go to a dentist as soon as possible, and get an artificial set. It is not vanity only that should prompt the purchase, but also dread of indigestion. .Properly made false teeth enable their happy possessors to chew the crispest toast, the hardest crusts, and the toughest meat, and the salivary juices are as much excited as when mastication is done with natural teeth. Their cost will be well repaid in the prevention of dyspepsia and the saving of doctors' fees. A well-known children's doctor sajs that children often become " inveterate food- bolters" from having decayed teeth which hurt when bitten upon. D.ntists, to prevent this, often stop children's teeth, even at four years old. It is very important at any age to see that decayed teeth don't interfere with chewing. Body and brain should rost for a while after substantial food is eaten, so tint energy may not be diverted from the wori£ the stomach has to perform by extra blood pressure b.ing required by limbs or brain. Tins is especially necessary for those whoso digestive powers are naturally weak, as exercise has a very retarding power on the assimilation of food. Mothers should see that children who go to day schools, have breakfast early enough to be able to eat it quietly and i slowly, and get to school without a rush, especially when a train journey tas to be taken. Early dinners, unless for peoqle of leisure, who can take an hour's rest afterwards, are very unhygienic. Many working men and women owe their dyspeptic troubles to the midday dinner, from which they hurry off to work without even half an hour's rest after it. If they would eat a light meal, without meat, in the middle of the day, and reserve the more substantial food for an early supper, say at eight o'clock, they wjuld find great benefit fiom ttie alteration. It is quite a mistake to suppose that the uay's work can't be well got through without meat eating m the middle of it, Just the reverse is the case. A heavy meat meal should not be eaten when the body is exhausted, as directly after a long journey. The muscular system is then not able to proferly perform its work, It should be recouped with a cup of hot soup or tea, and some light refreshment, mi J, if possiblo, a sleep; then with a revival of strenth the digestive apparatus will be lit for work.—Florence otacpoole.

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