| Show A WEEKLY TALKS ON HEALTH by dr S R R daniels GREEN vegetables why you should eat very preely freely of this class of foods our green summer vegetables are among the mot moa valuable of summer foods many people have an idea that vegetables are not nourishing and that their use leads to various summer digestive disorders this Is a mistake presh fresh vegetables are indispensable t to 0 perfect health vegetables furnish the body with quantities of mineral tails kalts in a fonn easily into the system these mineral tissue salts are quite as necessary in nourishing the body as are the minerals contained in bread and meat in fact it is through the chemical action of these tissue salts that the various foods are burned up to form hept heat and energy and the waste is ell min atea it manes makes no cairer erlice enco how much you eat if your food does not cairy a buffi clent amount of these tissue salts salta it cannot be used up and you will virtually starve many diseases have their beginning in an undernourished state of the body due to lack of tissue salts lettuce string beans tomatoes ina toes and all of the salad vegetables as well as summer squash and asparagus are all rich in mineral tissue salts palts spinach contains qualities of iron the blood forming ml mineral in an easily assim table lable from which cabbage furnishes us with sulphur besides these properties fresh vegetables carry considerable fluid into tho the body remember that the body is seven eights water vegetables also contain a varying amount of groteid and starch food peas for example are rich in all of the elements necessary to nourish the body vegetables are valuable in diluting as it wore were the heavy foods food 3 meat broad bread and potatoes rie ne concentrated foode they arp are more leadley digested digweed alwn lie n bulky food such as in the meal any farmer knows knovs that a t li hoise oie to do well must have hay lay as well as oats likewise people do much better on a diet that contains only a model ate amount of strong food vegetables in a meal ineal stimulate the flow of all ot the juices which digest the food they also stimulate the inus muscles cles in the walls of the intestine and thus prevent sluggish bowel astion people eno use plenty of vegetables are rarely afflicted with our national disorder constipation DIARRHOEA tills this ailment la in more prevalent daring During summer months cause and cure I 1 diarrhoea is a process shiell tile body sots sets up in an emergency to clean out quickly the stomach to macli and bowels of injurious material this injurious material is 18 practically always food unused undine undigested sted food undigested food Is left in the stomach and bowels when w eat more food than we need also when we eat fried foods rich foods or indigestible foods flooding the stomach alth xyth water directly after a meal drinking teed iced foods all i tend to delay or to present ervent digestion and thus to leave undigested foods in the bowels dial is more prevalent dulling the summer because the file hot weather makes it impossible sible for the body to burn up the large amount of heavy flood lood that most people eat the year around summer and win tor ter alike hence during the summer there is in tile the stomach and bowels more undigested unused food undigested food in the stomach and bowels always ferments and decomposes rots if you please and forms forma poisons are of so large a quantity as to be a positive menace to the system the body hurries them and the undigested food out by means of a diarrhoea the most important essential in the treatment of dial rhiea Is to remove its cause tood food As soon as a diarrhoea la Is set up take no food of any kind until the bowel movements have ceased and the ill feelings too lings have passed oft off dur ing diar digestion is suspended taking food only adds addo fuel to the flames dont check a diarrhoea such treatment locks up in the system poisons which may result in other othea diseases frequent one ene mas of worm warm water or a mild saline laxative will assist in cleansing out the stomach and bowels and hasten a cure these simple measures ith hot bath sand rest in bed in severe cases will result in a short rapid cure of practically every attack of this corn coin mon summer disorder to avoid future attacks of diar i hoea eat only what food you can digest and use up and eat 0 only easily digested foods |
