Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-28 | Page 10 | The Truth About Diet

Truth About bout Diet Di t By Df DR MORRIS 1 FISHBEIN Editor Journal of tho the American Medical Association and of tho Health Magazine Our country is 15 oversupplied with food tood f faddists Some Somo believe bellevo that the eating of Who whole e wheat bread In largo large amounts is of greatest importance importance im im- un- un to health others insist that vast qU quantities of ot fruits must be bo eaten some oppose acids and some oppose alkalis some oppose the mixing of a acids ids and alkalis and others oppose tho the mixing of at proteIns proteins proteins pro pro- and starches If It people realized that the h human man body Is constructed to utilize vanous various van vari ous foods without mu much h trouble and that it gets along best on a varied diet food faddists would not be so common Digestion begins first in the mouth Food is chewed by the teeth then it is mixed with saliva from tho the glands on each side of theja tho the jaw ja The saliva makes mals the food easy to swallow It also contains a ferment ferment fer ten ment called ptyalin which is useful in digesting starches Tho The more moro completely the food Is chewed the tho easier it is to swallow and the more easily digested Next the food goes into the esophagus esophagus esoph esoph- agus which carries It to the ach The first really Important digestion digestion diges diges- tion begins when the f food d and the water get into the stomach Here the food is mixed with the juice which tho the glands of the stomach secrete This is a thin colorless or slightly yellow liquid with a stron strong acid reaction It is hydrochloric acid The gastric juice also contains two or possibly three ferments which aid in digestion of proteins Chief of these are pepsin and ren- ren nin nun There is possibly another called lipase which helps to digest fats One of the most widely promoted food fads of recent years is based on n the idea that starches are di digested digested digested di- di only in the mouth and proteins proteins proteins pro pro- only in the stomach and that therefore one should never mix proteins proteins pro pro- and starches in the diet The whole Idea is ridiculous The starches are arc mixed with the saliva and while their dige digestion Uon begins in inthe inthe inthe the mouth it is continued in the stomach The mass of food then passes into the tho intestine which is alkaline in reaction where digestion of starches continues I As I have pointed out previously the Jie mere sight of food will cause the stomach to begin secreting its digestive juice It gets the stomach ready for digestion Certain foods seem to have the special virtue of causing the tho pouring pouring pouring pour pour- ing out of gastric juice Such are arc meat extracts meat juices and soups while the taking of milk and water causes a lessened secretion Of the ferments which the stomach stomach stomach ach secretes pepsin is most important tant Pepsin acts only in the tho presence presence presence pres pres- ence of acid and arid th the stomach supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies that acid When the amount of acid secreted is insufficient the pepsin cannot work and the result results is s indigestion The rennin which the stomach secretes will coagulate milk and is sometimes used in commerce for that hat purpose TODAY'S HEALTH QUESTION Q My My face is red most of the time What can I do to relieve this condition A. A Redness A.-Redness Redness of the face may be associated with high blood pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure although many people with high blood pressure are arc not red redin redin redin in the face Facial redness may also be associated with nervous reactions of the type that causes blushing Any case ought to have study to learn the causes