ENSURING GOOD DIGESTION

Otago Witness, Issue 3313, 12 September 1917, Page 52

ENSURING GOOD DIGESTION

IMPORTANCE OF PREVENTING FOOD FERMENTATION IN STOMACH. Good digestion usually means good health. So long as the stomach does its work properly disease can find no lodgment in the human system; the liver, kidneys, and intestines will perform their work perfectly, and remain 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 that will upset the stomach and interfere with tho digestion is an excess of acid, usually caused by food fermentation. Food fermentation ia due to chemical action in the food itself. This fermentation causes the formation of "•as, or wind, as well as acid, resulting in The unnatural distention of the stomach and the burning by the acid of the delicate lining of ihc stomach. Medicines and tonics cannot relieve this condition—they usually make it worse. The fermentation and acid are to blame, and these must be overcome and prevented by taking after meals half a teaspoonful of bieuratcd magnesia in a little hot or cold water. Physicians recommend bisuratcd magnesii 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 bisuratcd magnesia from your chemist, and try it the next time your food ferments and upsets your stomach. Note how quickly the acid is neutralised, and how soon you forget that you have such a thing as a stomach. —Advt.