If You Would be Healthy

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 6690, 20 August 1919, Page 3

If You Would be Healthy

BAT PLENTY OF FRUIT. To get the full benefit from fruit it must be fresh. It also requires to be well masticatod, else indigestion will result. People who cannot eat raw apples will find that when baked they are much more easily digested. Those prone to biliousness should indulge freely in lemons. This is best taken in the form of a drink. A glass of cold or hot water with a tablespoon or so of strained lemon juico in it first thing in the morning is a splondid cure for and ! preventative of this most annoying complaint. It is also a grand tonic, and clears the skin in the most wonderful way. The Virtues of Certain Fruits. Gooseberry—Rich in salts. Lemon—Purifying and anti-bilious. Orange—Purifying, laxative. Con- '' j tains valuable vitamines and sugar. ' Strawberry—Anti-bilious. Blackberry—.Contains iron. Apple—ls a laxative. Contains phosphates and sugar. Pear—Very laxative. Contains iron, the important potash salts, and sugar. Plum and Prune—Constituents include nitrogen and sugar ; vory laxative. Grape and Raisin—Potash salts, iron, tartaric and phosphoric acids, and much sugar. Banana—ls constipating. Contains much starch. Fig—A laxative Sugar. Bate—Largely sugar. Cocoanut—Oil. A REMINDER. Mrs Penhack (looking up from book) —"John, when did the Thirty Years' War begin J" Mr Penhcck (absent-mindedly)— "Yes, dear, we are married just about that tinio now."