INDIGESTION PROM HASTE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12955, 26 August 1905, Page 6 (Supplement)

INDIGESTION PROM HASTE.

More ills come from lack of chewing food than from any other cause. This evil does not show itself till after the. habit is formed, and its continued effects are felt. The idea with most hasty eaters is to gain time. They are Hot aware of the serious consequences that follow. They may ha've been warned repeatedly, bill are heedless, 'nevertheless. Perchance an effort was made to correct the habit, but found to lie quite impossible. It is a harder habit- to break than to stop drinking' whisky. Not one in a thousand is able to do this. For this reason the- lesson should be learned in childhood, and then continued through life. The evils that follow may be enumerated by the hundreds. Both Height's disease and diabetes are generally caused by this habit. Rheumatism, fevers, and bladder troubles invariably follow. Constipation and piles are always the result. Paralysis, softening of the brain, and even insanity follow this great evil. Almost all inmates ill asylums are regular hog-eaters, never stopping to chew the food, lint .swallowing large lumps that cannot be digested fully, or in the inferior part, Those who feed mainly on cereals, meal, rice, and starchy foods, find it so easy to swallow them quickly that they can hardly help it. Yet the interior part id' every granule is untouched by digestant fluids in the stomach, and they become fermentative- in the. intestines as a. consequence. 'This fermentation in the intestines precipitates the phosphates, and these phosphates become an irritant all through the system, producing one or more of the above-mentioned diseases, or some other quite as hard to bear in after days or years. 'The result is always certain and sure, never otherwise.

Too much attention to this important subject, cannot bo paid. Every mouthful ought to be chewed from twenty to forty times. This is done in some colleges and schools where the students are rightly instructed.