Money Wasted on Food

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1916, Page 2

Money Wasted on Food

Food prices have mounted rapidly. They are likely to keep high. You can't afford to waste; that is very certain. To_go hungry because food is not obtainable is bad enough! But to starve in the midst of plenty—with good money in your pocket and no hindrance to buying—is infinitely worse. Vet, this is what- a host of people are doing to-day. Starving, mind you, not for the lack of food, but leeause their digestive organs have lost tone and cannot properly digest the food they eat. Remember, it is not what you eat, but what you digest, that nourishes vour body and keeps you strong and healthy. Unless food is converted by the digestive processes into a condition in which it can be absorbed into the system, muscles, bone, nerves and brain are slowly but surely starved. Food in such a case is indeed sometimes positively harmful. It hinders instead of helps, weakens instead of strengthens. How? Because it ferments in the stomach or intestines. Impurities ace given off which find their way into the blood and affect disastrously the whole body. If you would get full value from the food you eat, you must see to it that your digestive organs are always equal to the work you give them to do. Now and then, from one cause or another, they maylose tone. At such times you will fincl it better to savo a shilling or two on food and spend it on Mother Seigel's Syrup than to pile up misery for yourself j by continuing to eat more than • vour weakened organs can properly digest This renowned remedy deal's the system of tho injurious products of indigestion, and by toning up and stimulating the stomach, liver and bowels enables you to digest, and draw nourishment from, what you eat. You will then no longer have to deplore money wastsd 011 food.