HEALTH.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4633, 8 December 1934, Page 3

HEALTH.

TO PREVENT INDIGESTION.

The most common cause of indigestion at all ages is wrong food or over-feeding. The digestive organs need regularity and moderation, and if you deanjand too much they collapse. Acidity, heartburn, headaches, and sickness are common symptoms. To prevent it eat your food at regular times, and chew slowly and thoroughly. Don’t drink liquid with your meals, but always a glass of fresh water a few minutes, before. This washes away all the excess of secretion and leaves a stomach fairly clean to receive the food. Don’t eat too much bread and butter; the combination is good in moderation, but deadly indigestible in excess. Butter has the highest caloric value, and an excess of it will produce acidity and rheumatism. If you already suffer from, acidity and heartburn, the best remedy is to take half an hour after meals a teaspoonful of a mixture containing bicarbonate of soda, carbonate of magnesia, and carbonate of bismuth, in equal parts. This will neutralise the excess of your acidity and allow you to digest your meals nonnally. But remember that prevention is better than cure, and that the stomach carries the feet.