| Show Bad Effects of Fast Eating By DR JAMES W BARTON j 0 Dell Bell Syndicate Sen Service Ice WHEN X food enters the stomach the walls of the stomach contract and squeeze this food onward and out of the stomach Now the food should not be squeezed out of the stomach hur- hur hurriedly hurriedly or in fn too short r a time as the long long- longer longer er the food remains in the stomach the better better It Is mixed r with the digestive juice of the stomach and that much more I digestion of the food tood occurs An interesting ex- ex experiment k whereby k digestion of food tood In InDr inDr Dr Barton arton the stomach was wasa act a c t u a lly photo photo- photographed photographed graphed in the form torm of moving pic- pic pictures pictures tures Is recorded in the British I Medical l Journal by Dr J Russell Reynolds I The moving pictures tha that t tI the stomach is divided into three I parts as far as digestion Is con con- concerned When rood enters the first firstI I part nothing happens for a few minutes until there would seem to tobe tobe be some pressure from the amount or weight oi of food When this pres- pres pressure pressure sure gets to a certain height the I walls relax enough to let the food tood go I into the second part When this sec sec- second second ond part gets enough food tood or weIght I In it the muscle walls wails of the stomach stomach I ach begin to squeeze or contract against the food and the food is forced into the third the part part nearest the opening into the small Intestine into which the food en- en enters enters when its digestion In the stam- stam achis complete Some Squeezed Back An interesting point was WIS noted in that when the stomach muscles squeezed the second p part rt of the stomach sending a large amount of the food downward into the third part some of the food got squeezed back into the first part again When the stomach was high up in inthe inthe the abdomen some of the food was actually squeezed into the small in- in intestine Intestine within twenty minutes after It entered the stomach This is isa isa a condition often orten found in the nerv- nerv nervous nervous ous type of individual and Dr Rey- Rey Reynolds Reynolds says This accounts for the digestive trouble caused by tak- tak taking taking ing meals hurriedly the muscular coat ot of the stomach having no time timeto to adapt itself itsell to the bulk respond respond- responded ed by forcing the food out of the stomach before It was sufficiently mixed with willi stomach digestive juice This means that food should be eat eat- eaten en slowly slowly to give the stomach the proper amount of time to handle or digest it properly Underweight Causes Many trying to increase in- in increase crease their weight have found that despite ea eating ting extra food tood the in- in increase increase crease in weight has been little or none at all all lose some weight when they cut down on their food They lose weight whether their overweight Is due to eating too much food tood or to not get get- getting getting ting enough juice from irom the thyroId and pituitary glands Now why do the not Increase In weight when they eat more food There Is always the tact fact that just as there Is a tendency to over over- overweight weight In some families so is there the tendency to thinness un- un underweight underweight or malnutrition running In other families ThIs doesn't mean that the eight cannot be Increased but it does mean that the increase cannot be expected to be large il If however the indIvidual has weighed more has been of normal or average weight and has lost con con- considerable considerable weight the reason for this loss must be sought il Ii there has been worry anxiety grief or other emotional disturbance which has caused shock then all parts of the body including the digestive system tom tem have been disturbed food tood will go through the stomach and intes- intes intestine intestine tine and be only partly digested diarrhoea may carry away too much fluid or constipation will cause absorption of waste poisons that will take some oi of the body's fighting forces to combat Further the loss of rest from these emotional disturbances or from any other cause uses up the body's tissues and energies for tor rest Is as as a body builder and tissue saver as Is food tood itself Another factor Is that some focal infection may use up the bOdy tissue tissue sue and body energy thus causing loss of weight And finally just as lack ot of thyroid and pituitary juice makes all the body processes work more slowly thus preventing less of body tissue so can an Increase in these juices make all the body processes work more rapidly thus using up more body energy and more body tissue |
