“CIVILISATION’S GREATEST CURSE.'

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 732, 8 April 1933, Page 31 (Supplement)

“CIVILISATION’S GREATEST CURSE.'

CHIEF CAUSE OF OLD AGE AND DEATH. FAMOUS DOCTOR’S declaration. Doctors estimate that 90 per cent, of our common ills arise from Constipation. Sir William Arbuthnot Lane. England's great surgeon, describes Constipation as “Civilisation s greatest CU Since Metchnikoff startled the world twenty-eight years ago with his announcement that colon poisons were the chief cause of old age and death, science has made immense progress in studying the intestines. Science knows now that intestinal ill-health is caused not simply by Constipation. It owes its source to the IS at ure of the Bacteria in the Intestine. Some of these bacteria are friendly. Some are harmful. In ill-health the problem is to lessen the power of these harmful bacteria, and to increase the resistance of the whole body. You may feel entirely free from Constipation, so far as regularity of elimination is concerned. Yet if you feel depressed and sluggish, you are probably suffering from intestinal poisoning, which is known as H.C. (Hidden Constipation.) Even though elimination is regular, it may be late. Laboratory tests show that with many people the process of complete elimination takes from one to three days longer than it should. This gives the harmful bacteria an added chance to do their work. Inevitably, as the harmful bacteria continue to make inroads on your vitality, your body's defences are weakened. Youth vanishes. Old age is hastened. Pills and other purgatives may give temporary relief, but ultimately they increase the trouble. The overdose of to-day becomes the normal dose of tomorrow. Purgatives secure their effect by nervous irritation and draw water from the blood and tissues. Their continuous use ultimately weakens the intestinal muscles. Science Shows this New IV ay to Better Health. Science to-day is finding ways to lessen the power of these harmful putrefactive bacteria. The simplest of these ways is the regular use of Honeylax. We can’t all change our diet, but we can eat Honeylax. Why is Honeylax so beneficial? Honeylax contains the favourite laxative of the medical profession, which is prescribed daily by thousands of doctors throughout the world. It is so carefully blended, however, that all you taste in Honeylax is New Zealand's delicious clover honey. Honey, itself, is, of course, an ideal health builder. The radiation of the sun captured by the bees from the flowers supplies needed vitamines to poorly nourished bodies, added to which is the fact that honey is the most familiar form of invert or predigested sugar. Spread on bread or a biscuit daily just enough Honeylax to cover threepence—that is all—and you need never worry about Constipation. So safe and gentle, but sure, is Honeylax, so delicious to taste, that it is the ideal laxative for children. It acts just as Nature would itself —gently, surely, determinedly. It increases the flow of digestive juices in the stomach, rendering the digestion of other foods easier. In the large intestine it combats putrefaction, lessens the number of harmful bacteria, and stimulates gently the contractions of the muscles which aid in eliminating waste. Thus Honeylax cleanses the intestines, promotes complete elimination, improves digestion, purifies the blood, clears the skin, tones up the whole system.