SHOULD DYSPEPTICS DIET?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 283, 2 May 1914, Page 4

SHOULD DYSPEPTICS DIET?

• A SPECIALIST'S. VALUABLE ADVICE. ; "Dyspepsia, indigestion, (latulcace and ; practically all forms of stomach trouble," j writes a leading specialist, "are in nearly , "very instance tt(e direct result of food , fermentation and the consequent produc- ' : tion in the stomach of acid and gius , which irritate and distend the stomach } and make normal digestion impossible. , The gas, by distending tho stomach and pressing upon the surrounding vital or- * ! guns seriously interferes with tihair work, and frequently causes of oie heart; but the acid" is much i»lore dangerous, because it irritates, then in- s flames and even ulcerates the delicate lining of the stomach, producing dangerous stomach ulcers and even cancer. ! Food fermentation being primarily responsible for all the trouble, it was long the custom of physicians to permit the use only of sti'ch foods "as could not ferment, bnt unfortunately unfermcntablc foods were soon found to bo so lacking in nutrition ns to result 111 partial starvation and rapid loss of strength and vitality. In view of this fact., physicians nowadays seldom, if ever, recommend dieting, but' adopt instead the more logical plan the eating of any food tlwt mny be desired, and then preventing ferm»ntat'on bvneutrnlising the acidity. This they do by pre. scribing half a tenspoonful of bimivatetl • magnesia in a little warm water immediately after meals. This simp'e antacid is obtainable from any chemist,.and so remarkable are its peculiar properties Unit dyspeptics nnrt stomnnh sufferers can "cat practically anything they want <' so long as a little bisurated magnesia > is taken immediately afterwards." Diet- j ing for dyspeptics is seldom necessary, j ; and will soon be a thing of the past. Be '>i sure to get the same as what the doer ' tors prescribe. I 4 is misurated magnesia, spelled Other forms bearing somewhat similar chemical names arc lacking in its peculiarly valuable properties.