Eating Fruit at Breakfast.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 78

Eating Fruit at Breakfast.

The business of breakfast Is a most important one, for it stores the human battery with power for the day's work. A good breakfast gives a man staying qualities and equips him for almost any emergency likely to occur, hat are the essentials of a proper breakfast? The first, the most important, item is a preliminary meal of fruit—oranges, grapes, apples, eanteloupe, berries—seasonable fruit in which juice predominates over fibre. Fruit juices, taken early on an empty stomach, are converted into alkalies, keep the blood normally alkaline, preventing saturation of the system with uric acid ami warding off the storms of suffering which such a condition provokes. "Fruit juices act as correctives to the digestive organs, whetting- the appetite, increasing the secretion of gastrie juice, and stimulating peristalsis. Where fruit is eaten everv morning. digestion is satisfactory, the bowels are natural and regular, the head is clear, and an agreeable feeling of general well-being is experienced. “Too much emphasis cannot be laid upon this matter of a preliminary fruit breakfast. Tf accustomed to eating a small breakfast, you should lighten the noon lunch and 6 o’clock dinner. ’i ou will sleep better and rise with appetite. If the fruit does not appear to agree with you at first, try a small beginning. Take only an orange, drink the juice and reject the fibre. Persist, and the stomach will adapt itself. Gradually add a bunch of grapes, and an apple. You will be surprised at the far-reaching benefit derived from so simple a practice. “After the fruit, the usual breakfast of a ehop and rolls, omelet, potatoes, eoffee, or what not. is in order”