Show Daily Health Service By DK DR MORRIS FI FISHBEIN Everywhere you look today are ad d d. d announcements nd promotional promotional pro pro- motional material of food faddists To To push their ideas they must have some unusual notion of ot what hap happens lis listo to the food in the human body They The They do not he hesitate tate to contradict established facts acts of science and established knowledge of years The average human stomach stomach- reacts re re- acts nets in a certain definite way to most food substances There are are of ol course variations The amount of time required for forthe forthe forthe the stomach to empty itself d depends do de- de ponds nd largely largel on the kind of food put into it Most persons have a digestive diges- diges tive live time in the stomach of ot about tour four hours An investigator recently studied the digestion of meat as s a protein and Of oC potatoes as A n c carbohydrate in a number of Invalids He Hc found that there is no incompatibility between meat meal and po potatoes aloes or between be pro proteins proteins proteins' proteins proteins' and carbohydrates in general 9 Nevertheless there are a half haIr dozen dOlen I food faddists who wro insist that it ic is not well t tb mix proteins and carbohydrates carbohydrates carbohydrates drates and that such mixtures are responsible responsible re re- f for r a large amount of ill Ill- ness The stomach even in persons with fairly serious illnesses proceeds quite promptly to break up meat fibers fi If- hers bers when the they reach it It also acts at the same time on the drates In ln 50 persons who suffered from various chronic diseases one fourth of a a pound of ot hamburger steak was digested in 3 hours and 50 minutes One fourth of a pound of ot hamburger hambur hambur- ger er steak and one half of a pound of mashed potatoes was wa digested in 3 J hours and 54 minutes When a small amount of butter about three ounces Junces was added to this mixture the he time was lengthened to four hours and two minutes cr e As a result of all these Investigations Investigations it was found that there there- was no evidence at all aU to indicate that proteins proteins proteins pro pro- and carbohydrates are arc in the stomach It is quite likely that many people overeat and that these people do better setter with a lessened amount of car car- However control of th the diet is a serious matter and it is not well for people to be guided by those selling strange notions without scientific background Finally It is a well established fact that nature itself itsel mixes mies proteins and carbohydrates and that practically practically cally every food we eat cat is a mixture of such ba basic c substances |