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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 July 1913, Page 5

3000- DYSPEPTIC# IN MASTERTON. PHYSICIAN TELLS WHAT TO EAT, AND (JIVES SOUND ADVICE TO ALL STOMACH SUFFERERS. A well-known medical practitioner recently made the startling statement that a careful estimate shows that iiearly 50 per cent of us have some degree of dyspepsia—that's about 3000 people here in Masterton. When it was suggested that SO pier cent is a pretty large percentage, the doctor, seeing that' he was not being taken quite seriously, spoke as follows, and with emphasis that at once dispelled all doubt as to whether or not he was in earnest: If 50 per cent of the people of your town had just been exposed to smallpox, the\ whole town would be panic-stricken,land yet such exposure probably would not cause anywhere nearly as many deaths as will be caused, in time, by complications following mild cases of dyspepsia that are being neglected right at this minute. One drink of whisky doesn't make a drunkard. One day's neglect of a milk attach of dyspepsia isn't going to kill anybody. But nearly everyone neglects an abnormal condition of the stomach for months, or years, before becoming conscious of being an actual victim of real dyspepsia. And neglect, from that time on, can do damage pretty fast. It may lead to stomach ulcers or cancer, and terminate fatally. The enormous amount of dyspepsia, and its alarming increase from year to year, are due to the fact that we don't live normal lives. It's not normal to eat fast, to eat ultra-fancy foods, to sit all day at a desk, to live an inactive indoor life, etc. These abnormal conditions of living cause hyperacidity of the stomach. That means an excess of acid in the stomach contents. That excess leads to dyspepsia, indigestion, belching, distress after eating, wind, acid stomach, etc. For the cure of any of these troubles, I prescribe, first of all, the use of some common sense. Don't starve or go on any freak diet, but eat moderately, avoid fancy dishes, go light on stimulants, N and see if you can't pet a little more exercise. Don't take any pepsin or patent medicines or drugs to act on the stomach, hut go to your chemist and get a little ordinary Bisurated Magnesia, and take one-half to one teaspoonful in a little hot or cold water after each; meal. The. Bisurated Magnesia is an, antadd. It' is not to act on the stomach at all, hut to act entirely upon the contents of the stomach—td neutralise the excess acid. That is the way to get rid of your dyspepsia, indigestion, etc., and keep out of danger of developing stomach ulcers or cancer.