Piute Chieftain | 1916-08-17 | Page 3 | The Apple as Medicine

THE APPLE AS MEDICINE A modern scoffer has recently asked whether it would be possible that eve yielded to tho the serpent because he told her that apples were good tor for the complexion whether this argument was needed or not there is no question that it Is a true one nothing in all our varied and fas fascinate cinat ing range of fruits holds quite the same quality as the apple A raw ripe apple at its best is digested in ab minutes and the malic acid which gives it US iti distinctive character stimulates the liver assists digestion and neutralizes much noxious matter which it not eliminated produces eruptions of 0 the skin they do not satisfy like potatoes some people to whom they have been recommended js as food have said but the starch of the potato added to the surplus of starch we are always eating renders it undesirable as an article of too frequent consumption