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Show r YOUR HEALTH J V DR. R. H. GISHOP. J 4 CHEWING YOUR FOOD. Some years ago a great deal of : Public Inn-rest was awakened by a plan of . ntlnR food slowly, put for'h by Horace Fletcher It consisted merely in counting a r.frtnl number num-ber while chewing your fooil This ProcesB was called Fletr herlzlng. Kong hefnrt- this. howevcrMr Gladstone, Glad-stone, realizing that his own habit of bolting meals was ropldlv Phdan-gering Phdan-gering his dlfjeetlve processes and hence his mental powers, adopted a plan whereby ho allowed himself a certain period for nrvnls nor would he the table until the expira tion of that time. Thus he gradually gradual-ly slowed up and took the full ailot-I ailot-I led time for his food. It would be well for all of us If wo I would adopt a similar plan and stick I to It. We eat too fast We let our j troth off with too little, work and give our stomachs too much. The trouble with "Fletcherlzlng" food however, is that it's tiresome, j T,'s about as pleasant as calisthenics swinging your arms so nnd so for I a certain number of count -i. Thorough mastication mean I masticating masti-cating up tb the point of Involuntary swallowing. i doeenl moan forcibly holding the food In th mouth, counting count-ing the chews, or otherwise making a bore of eating, j The evils of Insufficient mastication mastica-tion "mav be enumerated as follows Insufficient use of th- teeth and jaws (hence dental decay as well as other and worse dental evils i. insufficient insuf-ficient saliva mixed with the food (hence Imperfect digestion of the starchy substancesi, Insufficient BUb-dhlslon BUb-dhlslon of food by mastication (hence ! slow digestion); the failure of the taate nerves to telegraph ahead, as It were to the stomach and other j digestive organs an Intimation of the , Mm) ,md amount of digestive julce-i required ( hen e Indigestion). the over-seasoning of food to make it i "taaty" even when bolted (hence over-eating and Irritation of the mucous mu-cous lining), the excessive use of meat and eggs and like foods, which I can be eaten rapidly with relative I Impunity, and the corresponding no-I no-I gleet of other foods which require I morn mastication, like bread grains, vegetables, and salads (hence Intestinal Intes-tinal poisonlncr). |