INSURING GOOD DIGESTION

Southland Times, Issue 17427, 20 August 1913, Page 6

INSURING GOOD DIGESTION

IMPORTANCE OF PREVENTING FOOD FERMENTATION IN STOMACH. Good digestion usually moan? 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 the digestion is an excess of acid, usually caused by food fermentation. Food fermentation is due to chemical action in the food itself. This fermentation cause? the formation of gas. 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 the stomach Medicines and tonics cannot re'ieve this condition they usually make it worse. The fermentation and acid are to blame, and these must he overcome and prevented by tailing after meals half a tenspoonful of bisurated magnesia 'll 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 il bland and harmless, without irritating or tipsetting the stomach in any way. Got a little bisurated magnesia from your chemist and trv U the next time your food ferments and upsets your stomach. Note how quickly the acid is neutralised, and how soon yon forget that you have such a thing as a stomach. x