Fruit as an Article of Diet.

Hastings Standard, Issue 86, 5 August 1896, Page 4

Fruit as an Article of Diet.

Grapes of all kinds are exceedingly valuable as preservers of health. They contain a number of elements indispensable to good conditions, and if more of them were eaten there would be fewer invalids and more good tempers. They are soothing to the nerves as well as grateful to the palate. Oranges and lemons are also valuable fruits. The orange is a corrector of bilious conditions, and is one of the best complexion restorers imaginable. Any lady who eats two or three oranges a day is quite certain to discover a marked improvement in her complexion within a few weeks. But by far the most useful and important fruit is the apple. A free use of this orchard product means exemption from many prevailing diseases. Some of the ablest doctors assert that a diet of apples and brown bread will cure any ordinary case of gout. Rheumatic difficulties are greatly relieved, if not cured altogether, by apples, and as an aid to digestion they have no equal. But it must be borne in mind that apples are to be eaten as part of the food, not merely as a finish, and when the appetite has been fully satisfied with other things. One man has cured himself of life long dyspepsia and an intestinal trouble by the use of apples and ordinary bran at his meals. If the leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations, snjrely the fruits must be quite as effective, and are certainly a groat deal more palatable.