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Show j Dyspeptics Take Note. Dyspeptics will do well to observe the following general rules: Livo on two meals a day if possible. Never eat to excess. Estimate as nearly as you can the Hi tual needsof the system, and limit the quantity of food to them, remembering remember-ing that ono grows weak if he eats too much. Eat slowly and masticate all food even longer and more thoroughly than a healthy person careful of his digestion di-gestion would do. Quite dry foods, as a rule, are best suited to dyspeptics, who should drink sparingly with their meals. Some can take ice water in very small quantities without being disturbed by it, but generally it retards digestion. And the 6ame is true of all cold drinks. Warm ones suit most dyspeptics best, and a very little weak tea, if properly made, is not at all likely to do any harm. The food should be neither very hot nor very cold. Properly, it shonld'be about "blood warm." Every one knows from experience just what foods distress them, and what are well borne; of course, the former should be excluded from the diet Boston Herald. |