INSURING GOOD DIGESTION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 73

INSURING GOOD DIGESTION.

Grandmother's Will.

IMPORTANCE OF PREVENTING FOOD FERMENTATION IN STOMACH. Good digestion usually means good health. So long us the stomach does its worlc properly disease can find no lodgmo.pt in the human system; the liver, kidneys, and intestines will perform their work perfectly and teniain in perfect health; but interfere with the proper digestion of food and an unending train of troubles is set in motion. About the only thing (hat will upset tho stomach and interfere with the digestion ia an excess of acid, usually caused by food fermentation. Food fermentation is due to chemical action in the food itself. This fermentation causes the formation of gas, or wind, as well as acid, resulting in the unnatural distention of the stomach and tho burning by the acid of the delicate lining of the stomach. Medicines and tonics cannot relieve this condition—they usually make it worse. The fermentation and acid arc to blame, and these must be overcome and prevented by taking after meals half a teaspoonful of hisurated magnesia in a little hot or cold water. Physicians recommend bisurated magnesia especially because it stops or prevents fermentation of food and neutralises the acid instantly, making it bland and harmless, without irritating or upsetting the stomach in any way. Get a little bisurated magnesia from your chemist and try it the next time your food ferment* and u|)sets your stomach Note how quickly the acid is neutralised, and how soon you forget that vou have such a thing aa a stomach.—Advt.