DO YOU KNOW HOW TO EAT?

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20740, 6 December 1930, Page 7 (Supplement)

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO EAT?

BY X PHYSICAL CDXTTJRH EXPKBT. ? Most people suffer ill-health needlessly • simply because they do not pay sufficient ; attention to the laws that govern life. Two of the fundamental conditions governing life are, first, the kind of fuel that is supplied to the human machine 'to produce energy, and, Becond, the elimi- ~ nation of waste products, it No one can be useful or efficient with"cut proper food. Nearly all the diseases 1 'and most of the pains people have are to the disturbance of nutrition by a faulty digestion. Z The first important problem deals with —the mouth and its work of mastication. If the food is not chewed enough a bad ' time awaits the consumer; if it is chewed too much there is waste; patience and j -energy are thrown away. V The purpose of mastication is to break -tip the food so that the' digestive juices -'can get at it readily, and so that it is "mixed with the saliva of the mouth. I; Food .that is bolted is likely to ferment 'in the stomach before the gastric fluids can work their way into it. Food that is not well mixed with saliva "5s hard to digest, for saliva is an alkaline substance, and stimulates the flow ;;of the acid stomach juices, and is also in* 'tended to help them in the despatch of -their work. ;; The natural remedy for faulty digestion ,5s simply to chew the food more slowly, this increases the amount of 6aliva "that mixes with it. V 'Eating a dry biscuit 20 minutes before j'lnenls may bo stilj more efficacious. The ''.saliva that reaches the stomach by this «-means starts the gastric juices flowing, "'•and by the time the meal itself arrives t the stomach is hotter able to copo with