Show Mine Min t Your Baby and By MYRTLE MEYER l ELDRED Any reader may obtain free help from Mrs Eldred on problems hems lems o of diet behavior and general gen gen- eral cral care of her h r baby Explain your problem In detail and send senda a self self addressed stamped envelope envelope enve enve- lope to Myrtle Meyer Eldred in care of this newspaper S LET LETS LET'S S HAVE RAVE THE TUE SPOTLIGHT ON DIGESTIVE PROCESS s' s IOne sOne One of the minor annoyances of a parents parent's life Ute Is her Inevitable worry about whether or not certain foods I are digestible She uses the word with fine tine disregard for its meaning and entire Ignorance of what could possibly happen if it foods didn't dl dl- gest No food can permanently defy di di- What we really all aU mean when we say a food Is b indigestible is b that It doesn't digest as quickly as some other type of food But if it it itis itis itis is s a food at all its ultimate fate tate isto Is Isto Isto to be digested LENGTH OF DIGESTION Breads cereals sugar vegetables are more easily digested than meat milk or eggs egg All of these are arc more quickly digested than butter cream or bacon The moment we eat cat a food rich in fat tat whether It be a rich milk or a piece of fat meat we lengthen the period of ot digestion of that food Fat as an element takes a long time so fats tend to inhibit the digestion of other food elements clements with which the they are associated The quality of the digestive juices also controls the length of time reQuired required required re re- re- re for tor digestion The digestive juices are acids which attack the food when It reaches the stomach and reduce it to an acid fluid luid In turn the rhythmic wave like action of the intestines allows for the regular regular regular regu regu- lar opening and shutting of the little gateway which shuts shuts' off the stomach from Cram the intestine A As this muscle relaxes and opens a little of the thc acidified fluid goes through Then another rhythmic movement another r. r opening of the pylorus which Is the gateway and more acid fluid luid goes through A WEAK DIGESTION Obviously if it the digestive acids are not effective the food Is it more slowly acidified and we say the childs child's digestion is weak During the long interval demanded for the acidifying process the child may suffer suffer suf suf- fer from pain or the food may be vomited Mothers should have a more ac accurate accurate rate picture of digestion than most of them possess They have a universal horror of baby spitting up sour food they are in general inclined to think soft foods and liquids foods more digestible than foods Foods that are highly watery do leave the stomach very quickly but lean meat on the contrary takes no lon Iori er to digest than milk The fluids o milk leave the stomach quickly but buthe the he the milk solids which remain demand the same lengthy digestion as as the meat both of them being largely the he same food lood element protein Digestion DigeStIon DigeS DigeS- tIon ion depends upon the Identity of ot the food rood element and the quality and effectiveness ef ef- ef of the digestive juices S Tomorrow Child L. L Li Is Happy When I Permitted to Help Himself I |