Show that body of yours by JAMES W BARTON M D the use and misuse of mineral oil HOSE individuals who have tried THOSE tried to do without laxatives or purgatives purga tives by eating fruit raw vegetables et bran and other rough foods are to be praised because the regular use of drugs for this purpose Is unwise there are times of course when a dose of epsom salts or castor oil Is the best possible treatment in fact the regular treatment with many physicians unless there Is some abdominal condition w where here purgatives purga tives would Is be e dangerous 13 ger some are now using mineral oil or russian oil to help the system get rid of its wastes and if this plain oil Is taken in proper quantities it Is certainly a simple and rid la safe method it was formerly thought that the oil passed through the body unchanged but drs S E newman and G E gruenfeld in journal missouri Misso url medical association state that although mineral oil Is not affected by the action of the digestive juices it Is broken up in the same manner as tats fats although not to the same extent however mineral oil has proved itself so effective in preventing con ati by helping the waste to pass ass readily through the large intestine te that the dally daily use of one half tablespoonful or more of the oil ia tor for several days at a time Is advised the oil seems to prevent some of the liquids of the food from being absorbed into the body and this liquid being still in the wastes helps to make the wastes bulky giving the muscles of the intestines more to grasp and push downward naturally the muscles of the walls of the intestine with this bulk to handle are kept in much better tone or condition than when the wastes are dry and scanty however doctors newman and greenfelt Gru enfelt point out that it if the quantity of oil used Is too large it may accumulate in the lower part pare of the large intestine act really as a sort of irritant which keeps the bowel overactive overact lve and may cause spasm or cramps the thought then Is that the use of mineral oil in suitable doses for a few days at a time may be helpful when there Is a tendency to constipation sti pation too much mineral oil may cause irritation cramps and spasm of the muscles of the intestine vitamins y YOU OU are reading and hearld hearing a great d deal eal about vitamins t these e days food manufacturers drug experts even restaurants are telling the world about the magle magic qualities of their products because these products contain vitamins thus the first impression one might get Is that a vitamin or vitamins are a new kind of food substance or that these manufacturers are putting this new food substance into their products As a matter of fact the various vitamins are not cot in any way alike one vitamin being as different from another vitamin as meat Is from bread further the average man woman or child does not need to buy these products advertised to contain certain vitamins in order to get enough vitamins the dally daily diet of the average intelligent middle class individual contains all the necessary vitamins and in the amount necessary tor for the maintenance and workings of the body take the average diet and it will tio be found that cereal milk perhaps some cream toast a little bacon and some tea or coffee with sugar and cream will make up the a average breakfast lunch will consist of b read bread and butter milk tea or coffee some fruit or a salad dinner will consist of soup usually vegetable soup meat potatoes one or two other vegetables and some fruit or pastry for dessert an individual eating the above diet and getting out into real sunshine dally daily not the sunshine of the dust and smoke laden atmosphere of any city need never think of vitamins we do not get the full value of the ultra violet rays in cities however most of us live indoors indoors get little sunlight and not enough of one important vitamin vitamin D which la Is needed to keep our bones and principally our teeth in good condition hence the decay of teeth beet in the majority of children and adults vitamin D and ultra violet rays have the same effect upon the body to get vitamin D children are gien ghen more sunshine are treated with ultra violet rays by special lamps lamps and also ghen cod liver of OIL L in other words it if we lived outdoors our ordinary diet would be perfect As we do not live outdoors eggs and cod liver oil may be necessary to supply vitamin D copyright sonvico irvle irv lc |