| Show I 1 health notes by dr R R daniels o SUGAR A valuable Val nible winter food but that must not he be abused abased next neit to the fats ats sugar when used by the body yields more heat weight for weight than any other food hence sugar Is a good winter food especially for those who are out of doors doom considerable likewise sugar is a bad summer food because sugar suar Is a highly concentrated food it must be eaten in small quantities furthermore on account of its tendency to ferment shortly after reaching the stomach it must be eaten with due regard to the rules of digestion go stion those whose digestion la Is impaired should use sugar with con sider ablo caution rat hat sweets with a the stomach performs its work much better it if our foods food are not too concentrated following this rule a should never eat sugars and sweets alone but always with t of other foods in tact fact it has been demonstrated by experiment that if more than one fifth of tile the contends of the stomach at the close of 01 any meal Is sugar then the digestive juices will not be excreted at all the result that the meal will not only fall fail to be dige digested stcl but it will rapidly ferment and irritate I 1 the stomach and poison tile the system so that sweets should be eaten TV ith oilier lother foods especially those which lare pre not concentrated natural sugars are best granulated sugar Is about tho the most difficult to digest of all sugars while the brown sugar and maple sugar are more easily digested glucose is probably the most easily digested form of sugar when it is pure it is a valuable food the best sugars are the natural sugars such as occur in greater or less quantities in all fruits and quite abundantly in figs prunes dates and raisins dy by combining these sweet fruits with those containing less sugar valuable winter desserts may be made A winter lunch may be made or of baked apples prepared by taking large cores out of the apples tilling filling the centers with raisins dates or and baking without any other sweetening plenty of cream on the apples and a small piece of cheese will add sufficient food to make a lunch tor for the average person |
