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Show " HEALTH I BY UNCLE SAM, M. D. health Questions Will Be An- wercd If Sent to Information Bureau, U. S, Public HeaAh Sarv Ice, Washington, D. C l - SPICY FOOD M HEAITH While tho frequent use of strong seasoning with our food is Inadvisable, most of us probably prefer foods which contain a little pepper or paprika, pa-prika, anel have a greater appetite for them. This mc.ins thut more gastric Juice Is secreted and that tho foods are better digested Ginger has an even greater action in this respect. In hot climates, and In this country coun-try during the- boat of summer, the appetlt? diminishes, and wc feel very I it t lo If nny hunger. The consequence would be that our nutrition WOUld suff-r. were- It not for the fact that Nature1 has provided in Just thse hot climates a cerlcs of the most powerful herbs and spices. Wherever rice grows which product pro-duct is poor In taste-bearing can-ntltuents, can-ntltuents, and where many of the foods rich in stu relies but having In general very little taste also grow thero nature- likewise allows a profusion pro-fusion of spices to thrive. And indeed, in-deed, the natives, as well as the Europeans Euro-peans living In hot climates, use these condiments very freely. Such splce3 do very little harm, however, in tropical climates, for the increased activity of the skin helps carry them off before they have had time to injuriously affect the liver and kidneys. If these organs arc In any way Impaired, Im-paired, the consequences will be serious; ser-ious; It is, moreover, a well-known fact that the health of Europeans living In th" tropics Will become effected ef-fected If they do not perspire freely. Although these spices arc not particularly par-ticularly injurious in such countries. 'the same is not the case in our latl- jtude. l It follows, therefore, that we should , rather use spices, etc., in the hot summertime than In winter, when It is cold, especially in the northern Winters, where the activity of the skin I j Is suspended und all Injurious splcca 'woul'l have to be eliminated by the kjdneya thug subjecting the-to organj KjV to serious Injury. oo |