WHY SUGAR SHOULD BE TAKEN IN SMALL DOSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12272, 16 May 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)

WHY SUGAR SHOULD BE TAKEN IN SMALL DOSES.

Physicians have discovered that the custom '■ of using sugar as a food is not ■ only nnneccessary but injurious to health. All the sugar that is needed in the system is manufactured by the liver. Excess of sugar, the usual result of its use as food, causes fatty degeneration of the organs of the body. This kind of fa* is known to be the foundation of such disorders as Bright's disease, apoplexy, paralysis, fatty heart, and abnormal conditions of the liver, kidneys, muscles, and bones. Sugar in great excess of what the liver distils from natural food ferments in the alimentary canal, producing alcohol, carbonic acid, and vinegar. An immediate result is dyspepsia, a general feeling of misery and craving for more sweets. Like all other acquired tastes, the sugar eating habit is hard to give up, but numerous tests have shown that when the habit is once broken coffee and tea are better relished when unsweetened. The reformed eater of sugar finds the natural taste of food more pleasant than when it is disguised by the presence of sugar. He also discovers an astonishing improvement of his health and spirits, with a capacity for physical and mental exertion which he did not possess while his system was kept clogged with sugar and its' ferments. The conventional idea has long prevailed that sugar is a perfect food because the palate craves it, and because it is made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen—all elements essential in sustaining life. But when this idea first took root in people's minds they did not know that they carried about with them a more perfeo* sugar machine than man has invented—the liver— which has the power of extracting from natural foods exactly the quantity of sugar needed by the body. Take your lemonade unsweetened, and your liver will reward you by working with extra energy. Leave sugar out of your general diet, and you will soon forget that you have any liver.—New York Journal. !