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HEALTH
TIPS! (Page 2a)
Causes
Of Digestive Disturbances (Continued)
Chewing
Gum: -- Dr. J. H. Kellogg says,"The habit of chewing gum
is likely to produce sour stomach by interfering with the digestion
of starch through lessening the activity of saliva." The
mouth produces the enzyme, ptyalin, which breaks down starch. When
the salivary glands are constantly at work in the process of gum
chewing, then they will eventually lose their tone and not work
efficiently to break down starch when you eat a regular meal.
Combining
fruits and vegetables: -- "Fruits and vegetables taken
at one meal produce acidity of the stomach; then impurity of the
blood results, and the mind is not clear because the digestion is imperfect."
Cooking
in aluminum wares
using aluminum in any form: -- Aluminum is a soft metal which
will rub off into your food. To test to see if your ware is aluminum,
rub vigorously over the surface with a piece of white tissue. The
aluminum will rub off on the tissue, turning the white tissue to a
silver gray color. Ingesting aluminum has been documented to be toxic
to the body. Those who wish to pursue the documentation may write to
Health Research, Mokelume Hill, CA for listing of publications on
this subject.
Drinking
with meals, liquid foods: -- "Taken with meals, water
diminishes the flow of saliva: and the colder the water, the greater
the injury to the stomach...No drink is needed with meals. Eat
slowly, and allow the saliva to mingle with the food." (2) Counsels
on Diet and Foods (CD) pg. 420. "The more liquid there is
taken into the stomach with the meals, the more difficult it is for
the food to digest: for the liquid must first be absorbed." (3) Counsels
on Diet and Foods (CD) pg. 106. "Taken in a liquid state,
your food would not give healthful vigor or tone to the system...Dry
food that requires mastication is far preferable to porridges."
(4) How to Live (HL) pg. 90. "If anything is needed to
quench thirst, pure water, drunk some little time before or after the
meal, is all that nature requires. Never take tea, coffee, beer,
wine, or any spirituous liquors. Water is the best liquid possible to
cleanse the tissues." (5) Counsels on Diet and Foods (CD)
pg. 420.
Eating
just before going to bed: -- "Another pernicious habit that
of eating just before bedtime...The sleep is often disturbed with
unpleasant dreams, and in the morning the person awakes unrefreshed
and with little relish for breakfast. When we lie down to rest, the
stomach should have its work done, that it, as well as the other
organs of the body, may enjoy rest." (11) Ministry of Healing
(MH) pi. 303-304. "If you feel that you must eat at night, take
a drink of cold water, and in the morning you will feel much better
for not having eaten." (12) How to Live (HL) pg. 85. The
goal is to have the stomach empty by the time you are ready for bed.
For this to happen, solid food must be eaten several hours before
going to bed, as well as at least 5 hours after the preceding meal.
At night when you are sleeping, your body processes slow down and the
digestion proceeds to only half,pace, so your stomach has to work all
night if it has food in it when you go to bed, and even after working
all night the food still will not be digested.
Eating
too fast: -- In this violation, we are undermining the process
of digestion in the mouth. "Food should be eaten slowly and
should be thoroughly masticated. This is necessary in order that the
saliva may be properly mixed with the food and the digestive fluids
be called into action." (13) Gospel Workers (GW) pg. 241.
"Do not be hurried, but eat slowly and with cheerfulness, your
heart filled with gratitude to God for all His blessings." (14) How
to Live (HL) pg. 86. "In order to have good digestion, food
should be eaten slowly."(l5) "If your time to eat is
limited, do not bolt your food, but eat less, and eat
slowly."(l6) "The benefit you derive from your food does
not depend so much on the quantity eaten, as on its thorough
digestion: not the gratification of the taste so much on the amount
of food swallowed as on the length of time it remains in the mouth."(17)
Eating
too great a variety at one meal: -- "Rich and complicated
mixtures are health destroying."(l8) How to Live (HL) pg.
91. "So many varieties are introduced into the stomach that
fermentation is the result. This condition brings on acute disease,
and death frequently follows."(l9) Counsels on Diet and Foods
(CD) pg. 110.
Eating
when tired, excited or nervous: -- "Another serious evil is
eating at improper times, as after violent or excessive exercise,
when one is much exhausted or heated. Immediately after eating there
is a strong draft upon the nervous energies: and when mind and body
is heavily taxed just before or just after eating, digestion is
hindered. When one is excited, anxious, or hurried, it is better not
to eat until rest or relief is found."(20) Ministry of Healing
(MH) pi. 305, 306. When the body is exhausted, the stomach is in no
condition to receive food. It is better-to rest 10 to 15 minutes
before eating and then digestion can proceed normally. If you have
lost considerable sleep, it is more important to get sleep than food
at that point.
Grease:
-- "Grease cooked in the food renders it difficult of
digestion."(21) How to Live (HL) pg. 95. "You should
keep grease out of your food. It defiles any preparation of food you
may make."(22) Ibid, p. 95. "Butter and meat
stimulate. They have injured the stomach and perverted the taste.
"(23) Ibid, p. 95. Grease coated food cannot be digested
in the stomach, but the stomach keeps trying and eventually kicks it
out into the intestines in a putrefied state. Natural oils in the
eontext of the food are digested when they reach the small intestine,
avoiding interference with the digestive process of the stomach.
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