EAT FRUIT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7329, 15 February 1902, Page 1

EAT FRUIT.

(Syracuse Clinic.) The curative value of fruit is becoming more and more insisted upon 'by tibose who make a study of dietetics. Grapes are recommended for the dyspeptic, tfoe consumptive, the anaemic, and for those with a tendency for gout and liver troubles. Plums, also, are said to b« a cure for gouty and rheumatic tendencies. The acid fruits, especially lemons and oranges, are particularly good for stomach; troubles an<J rheumatism. It is not sufficient, say the advbeates of [ the fruit cure, to eat a small quantity at breakfast or dinner. One should eat from two. to eight pounds of grapes a day, or, if oranges are the curative agency, the number to be eaten, in a day may vary from three to six. A healthy condition of the body depends upon a perfect balance of foods taken. There are many other factors entering into : the question, but this feature must not be forgotten. Few people there axe who can keep healthy without fruit. How absurd, someone says, to be told to eat fruit when everybody eats it. Yes, but 'how do you eat it? Do you *ake a definite amount of it, the same as you do of meat and potatoes, or do you eat it as you do candy? . If you suffer from an acute attack of indigestion after a dinner of soup, meats, pickles, sauces, salads, cakes, pastries, with spices and condiments enougt *o blister the skin| to say nothing of the delicate lining of the stomach, pray do not aver that indigestion arises from 'the morsel of fruit taken aft the end. • Be honest with your stomach for a month, eat no more than, you need of simple food, into which "the true luxunies of nature, such as apples, oranges, pears, or other fruit, shall enter. Try, if only as an interesting experiment, to eat sparingly of the cruder articles of diet, and more of those suited to your v , real T in.eedis, and see to it that fruit forms a part of feach meal. • ' "But there are so mamy kinds of fruit that I oanmiot eat." ' i •"There it is again. Because you cannot eat seventeen kinds of food at one meal ending with fruit, it, of couusey was the apple, or the strawberries that did the harm." "But doesn''fi. fruit make tßa Wood thin?" "It certainly does, and we are mighty > glad of it. Ask any doctor, who has practised- medicine for ten years with, his eyes i c^n A _^d./be^wi'U_..tell you that the great . *mflJority~oF "grownup folks have blood too thick. ' ' ''• . ' : . •■ " Th© minerals, and natural acids bf the fruit are the very best conceivable remedies for this thickened condition of the blood. Fruit then becomes both, a food and a,me•dicine — a necessity and a zniasb delightful luxury."