Money Wasted on Food

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13268, 25 August 1916, Page 2

Money Wasted on Food

Food prices have mounted rapidly. They are likely t<o keep high. You can't afford to waste; that is very certain. To go hungry because food is not obtainable is had enough! But to starve in the midst of plenty—with good money in your pocket and no hindrance to buying—is infinitely worse. Yet, this is what a host of people are doing to-day. Starving, mind you, not for the lack of food, but because their digestive organs have lost tone and cannot properly digest the food they eat. Remember, it is not what you eat, but what you digest, that nourishes your body and keeps you strong and healthy. Unless food is converted by the digestive processes into a condition in which it can be absorbed into the system, muscles, bone, nerves and brain are slowly but surely starved. Food in such a case is indeed sometimes positively harmful. It hinders instead of helps, weakens instead of strengthens. How? Because it ferments in the stomach, or intestines. Impurities are given off which find their way into the blood and affect disastrously the whole body.

If you would get full value from the food you eat, you must see to it that your digestive organs are always equal to the work you give them to do. Now and then, from one cause or another, they may lose tone. At such times you will find it better to save a shilling or two on food and spend it on Mother SeigeTs Syrup than to pile up misery for yourself, by continuing to* eat more than your weakened organs can properly digest. This renowned remedy clears the system of the injurious products of indigestion, and up and stimulating the stomach," liver and bowels enables you to digest, and draw nourishment from, what you eat. You will then no longer have to deplore money wasted on food.