Show FRUIT A PERFECT FOOD some people are afraid to eat fruit thinking that fruit and diarrhoea are always associated when if they understood der stood the genuine cause of diar rheba they would know that it was caused by eating meat in the hot weather meat pu trifles very quickly and during this process alkaloids are formed which are very poisonous acting as emetics and purgatives purga tives true that fruit eaten green or between meals will interfere with digestion and cause bowel troubles but use fruit that is perfectly ripe at mealtime meal time and only beneficial results will follow acids prevent calcareous degen orations erat ions keeping the bones elastic as well as preventing the accumulation of earthy matters this is because of the solvent power of the acids but manufactured acids are not harmless as are those which nature has prepared for us in the various kinds of fruit fruit is a perfect food when fully ripe and were it in daily use from youth to age there would be less gout gallstones and stones in the bladder stewed apples pears and plums are favorite articles of diet for breakfast or lun luncheon rheon h eod in the dining room or in the nursery there are fe few w table dishes more wholesome and more delicious than well stewed fruit served up with cream or custard there are many persons however who cannot eat it on account either of the acidity of the fruit or the excess of sugar necessary to make it palatable sugar does not of course counteract acidity it only disguises it and its use in large quantities is calculated to retard di feat lon the housewife fore or be grateful for the reminder that a pinch a very small pinch of carbonate of soda sprinkled over the fruit previously to cooking will save sugar and will render the dish at once more palatable and more wholesome lesliea Le popular monthly |