Show Daily Health Service Food Food s Is Not Nut the Only Cause of Pain in the Stomach r- r B By DR MORRIS 1 FISHBEIN Whenever you get a pain In the stomach dont don't attribute it immediately immediate immediate- ly to indigestion It may be one of any number of ailments that have nothing to do with the action of ot the tract and then again you may be right about your own Indigestion may refer to anything anything any any- thing from a simple interest in food and the disturbance of digestion digestion digestion diges diges- tion which that brings on to the terrific ter ter- ter- ter rifle effects effect of a cancer in the stomach or intestines However there arc are of the stomach such as result from ulcers which heal and leave soars If the stomach happens to be of an hourglass shape or to have fallen low lowIn lowin lowin in the abdomen due to relaxation of ofus its us ligaments there may be disturbance disturbance bance of dl digestion Appendicitis inflammation in the c gall bladder Inflammation in the lower part of the intestines or an nn infection or inflammation of the liver also may produce effects which are referred to the stomach aa Eating grossly improper foods or chewing improperly or taking food rich In fiber which is not digestible or excess amounts of bran may cause enough trouble to produce indigestion Overwork lack of exercise wrong social adjustment In your h home me or orIn orin In hi your occupation may may- produce digestive disturbance Rest and stop worrying to relieve this type of in in- or gastric trouble I Of course the chief sign of Indigestion Indi Indi- which disturbs most people lis is pain in the stomach But sometimes sometimes some some- times what is called acute indigestion actually is io a heart deficiency The eminent British physician Dr Adolphe Abrahams points out that constant pain In the abdomen is ig a avery avery avery very serious symptom demanding immediate immediate im Ira mediate Investigation It may be associated with the beginning of a cancer or or the presence of an ulcer in la active stage It is more likely however that the pain from ulcers comes come on at fairly regular periods after meals and is relieved by vomiting vomiting vomit vomit- ing or not eating a a Frequently the correction of some faulty habit of hygiene especially the correction of irre irregularity and carelessness carelessness care care- about meals will help overcome overcome over over- come indigestion Just changing chancing your diet may not correct the symptoms Most people want to know what they may eat and what they may not eat when very frequently it i is not the individual items of food so much as the total quantity the times of ot eating the circumstances cir dr under which the food is eaten or or similar factors that may be responsible Occasionally there are single food substances to which a human being may be sensitive which will bring about severe attacks later In the stomach stoin ach and abdomen If If you tried to eliminate every food which at some particular have caused a disagreeable you mI might ht find yourself tUrn r everything that can cart be eat ai water waler S |