ENSURING GOOD DIGESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1917, Page 7

ENSURING GOOD DIGESTION.

importance of preventing food FEE JIENT ATION IN STOMACH Cowl digestion usually means good health. So long as tlic stomach does its work properly disease can find no lodgment in the human system; the fiver, kidneys and intestines will perform the.ir work perfectly and remain in perfect health: hilt interfere with the propw digestion of food and an unendim; train of troubles is set in motion. -About the only thins; that will v.pset the stomach and interftre with the digestion is an excess of aeid, usually caused by food fermentation. Food fermentation is due to the chemical action in the food itself. This, fermentation causes the formation of j;as, or wind, as well as acid, resulting ii. the unnatural distention of the stomach and y>e burning by the acid of the deli-; cate fining of the stomach. Medicines auu ioiiio.s cannot relieve this condition —they usually make it worse. The ie/nu.itation and acid are-, 'to blame, and these must be overcome*-; luid prevented by taking after meals-* half a teaspoomul cf bisurated inajne!*ia. especially because it stops or prevents fermentation of food and aeitral--ises the aeid instantly, making it bland a«d/harmless, without irritating' or upr?tting the stomach in any way. (let a little bisurated mayiieuia from your chemist ana try it the ne\'t time your food ferments anil upsets your stomach. Note how quickly the acid is neutralised, and how soon yjm • I'at von havov such a thing s- fttomackt