Show i Is PIE PERILOUS to DIGESTION 0 HERE HER is a widely current sl slang ng expression T THERE j which bewails the depressing circumstance that somebody is always tak taking ng the joy out out of life lire Many Americans have bave become wedded early to an outspoken liking for pie that typical national pastry The predilection for this article of diet seems to grow with the years Sooner or later however the aforesaid somebody somebody somebody some some- body who is more than likely to be a member of the medical profession is certain t to issue a note of warning aming against the alimentary dangers danien that lurk in pie pic Cake the distant pa pastry ry relative is somewhat less likely to form the subject of objections ob objections ob- ob from the physiologic critic while puddings puddings puddings pud pud- dings usually belong to the or at least receive tolerant consideration The The proof of the pudding pudding and and why not also of the pie pieIs pieis pieis pie pie- is the he eating How a number gastro or at the S S Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia have have come to the defence of of pie by actually determining ing lag the gastric response to it and analogous foods in inthe the healthy human stomach h is described by a aS S writer in iD the Journal of the American Medical Medica Association Y Direct comparisons of a variety of pies cakes and puddings rep representative of American culinary culinary culi culi- nary art on the same persons indicated that thaties pies ies were handled more t than an cakes es and k Ir pu puddings dings somewhat more readily than either cither Acc According to this authority it may be stated that the average time for the digestion of puddings puddings pud pud- dings ings was 2 hours and 18 minutes against 2 hours hour and 27 minutes for pies whereas cakes followed in the wake with an average record of 3 hours urs and 2 minutes Averaging the highest highet total acidities values value's were obtained for puddings puddings puddings pud pud- dings of 92 for pies pies' o of 90 and for cakes of 90 r Some of of these values are not widely divergent from front the the classic data obtained on Alexis St. St Martin Martin Martin Mar Mar- tin whose stomach permitted Be Beaumont to m make ke his pioneer pione r investigation in gastric digestion The writer says says says' that he found no occasion to report the insignificant distinctions between c custard pie pic and lemon meringue for example in their gastric gash behavior but it must be admitted that mince pie so often regarded as an arch offender of the digestive tract requires a rather F long time from two and three quarters to three and quarter cne-quarter hours to leave the stomach The addition of ice cream to a piece of pie pie pie-a a unique American combination does combination does not increase increase increase in in- crease t the c burden of the stomach to any extent and the c conventional apple pie and cheese likewise likewise likewise like like- wise give a conservatively good report To a a. few persons it may be a consolation to know that angels angel's food cake remained distinctly longer in the stomach than did devils devil's food cake r 1 |