Bellefonte, Pa., December 16, 1927.
Your Health,
FRUITS AND FRUIT JUICES
GOOD AID TO HEALTH.
“To grow old means to change in-
ternally in a particular way, not to
have lived so many months or years;
it is Life and not Time that brings
Age.”—Julian Huxley.
(By Dr. Daniel R. Hodgdon)
Fruits and fruit juices are one of
the fundamental aids to a well regu-
lated system. The use of them is a
safeguard against many evils. Al-
though fruit contains from 75 to 90
per cent. water and is not a concen-
trated food in the sense that meat,
eggs, fish and cheese are, it is, how-
ever, a vital essential for health.
In these days when fruit may be
shipped readily and quickly from
various parts of the country this
health producing food is accessible at
all times of the year. There is no
Yuestion but that the use of fruits
will reduce illness and prolong life,
First of all the water which fruits
contain may be considered a valuable
contribution to the necessary supply
demanded by the system, as well as
a deterrent to the desire for stimu-
ating drink. Fruits contain rough-
age, nature’s stimulant to the move-
ments of the, digestive and eliminating
organs. Fruits supply the great es-
sential roughage of waste which ev-
€ry normal human being requires in
his diet and which is often lacking
from the modern menu,
; € average individual may think
that fruits are acid-forming ~ foods,
Since they contain an acid, but just
the opposite truth prevails. Fruits
are alkaline-forming foods, that is,
they form an alkaline ash in the sys-
tem. Foods which produce acid con-
ditions in the body are eggs, fish,
meat, oatmeal, wheat flour, whole
wheat, rice, crackers, corn. Foods
which produce alkaline conditions are
beans, prunes, raisins, beets, carrots
¢elery, nuts, melons, lettuce, potatoes,
lemons, oranges, currants, cauliflower,
érange juice, peaches, raspberry juice,
cherry Juice, cabbage, apples, rad-
ishes, turnips, asparagus, pineapples
and strawberries. A few exceptions
among fruits contain benzoic acid.
Benzoic acid is changed in the body
into hippuric acid. Such fruits as
¢ranberries, plums and prunes are of
this character.
- All fruits contain mineral sub-
stances such as calcium, magnesium,
fron, phosphorus and potassium. The
interesting thing to be considered re-
garding these minerals is that they
are quickly and easily assimilated
from the fruit into the body and are
essential in cases of anemia or poo:
bloed. Fruits and fruit juices are the
natural tonics, and an orange or an
dpple will provide mere real mineral
matter which will be assimilated than
any bottles of tonic.
. Fruit and fruit acids in the fruit
Juices prevent the decay of teeth since
they prevent the formation of tartar
on the teeth. Fruit juices cause the
raucin which forms in a thin film on
the teeth to congeal or coagulate. It
15 under this film of mucin that sugar
and starch from the foods we eat
tend to ferment. The fermentation
causes lactic acid, and acid which
destroys the protective enamel of the
teeth. After this film is coagulated
it is easily removed with the brush
and consequently the teeth are kept
in good condition. For these reasons
fruit should be eaten at the close of
every meal. The habit has now great
functions—that of creating and re-
serving the teeth add tone of keep-
ing the stomach in good _ condition.
Where one finds he is unable to eat
fruits because they tend to irritate
the stomach, or because they are con-
stipated, strained fruit juice will be
found to be helpful to both stomach
and bowels,
Another essential found in fruit is
vitamines. It is for this reason that
a generous supply should be taken
every day.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEART.
(By Royal S. Copeland, M. D.)
A perfect machine is smooth and
regular in its running. If it is jerky,
suddenly stopping and starting, or if
it is noisy, you suspect trouble, of
eourse.
The perfect heart is regular in
its pulsations, going steadily along,.
quite deliberate in its action, If the
pulse drops a beat now and then, is
painfully slow, or suddenly develops
speed like a race-horse, the symptom
deserves attention.
I do not mean by this that one
of these happenings is a sign of
something dangerous. It may be a
passing thing and of no consequence
whatever. Indeed, it may be a chronic
and ever-present condition and yet
be of little importance.
It is not at all uncommon to find
a person in pretty good health who
has considerable irregularity of the
heart’s action. The doctors give it a
long, hard name—*“arrhythmia.” Of
gourse, in simple language, this means
nothing more than lack of rhythm.
It is not at all an uncommon thing
to find that the pulse of young chil-
dren and young adults, too, is quite
irregular. As they grow older, the
heart settles down to perfect regu-
arity. >
After a severe attack of one of the
fevers, the heart’s rhythm may be
disturbed for a time. Great care must
be taken after diphtheria and in-
fluenza. These diseases have a ten-
dency to attack the heart muscle and
to damage it seriously. The other
fevers disturb the heart, but do it
little real harm. The loss of rhythm
is restored when recovery is com-
lete.
? Most of what we call the funec-
tional irregularities” disappear as soon
as the victim exercises vigorously.
When I was a young doctor I was a
United States pension . examining
surgeon. . One of my associates on our
board was a wonderful doctor. He
knew more about the heart than any
other physician I ever met.
The examining board met in my
office on the third floor of the build-
ing. When we had an ex-service man
with an irregular heart, my colleague
would direct him to run down the
stairs to the street and return at once.
It was surprising how many dis-
turbed and irregular hearts would be-
come steady as a clock after this
rather strenuous exertion.
Of course, seriously involved hearts
would not be benefited by exercise.
On the contrary, violent effort is like-
ly to do harm. The irregularity may
be greatly increased by it.
Dyspepsia, a.iemia, excessive nery-
ousness, the abuse of liquor, tobacco,
tea or coffee, overworry and overwork
—these are among the causes of ir-
regular action of the heart. Plenty
of sleep and out-of-door life will help
to restore health. Nothing is more
important than the chewing of proper
food with good teeth and leading the
sort of life we call “sensible living.”
Have You a Heart?
“One of the two major problems
that are troubling public health offi-
cials at this time is heart disease.
The increase in deaths from this
cause has been too consistently on the
upward slant to assume an attitude
of indifference toward it,” said Dr.
Theodore B. secretary of
health, today.
“There are so many predisposing
causes to the impairment of the heart
that a generalized statement regard-
ing it is difficult to make. However,
if bad acting hearts were the worst
hearts the question would assume
more or less simplicity. But often,
just the opposite is true. Hearts, the
behavior of which is consciously bad,
are frequently suffering only = from
functional disturbances which may
lend themselves readily to treatment.
On the other hand, it is the heart
which seems to be operating smooth-
ly but which, owing to an organic
defect, suddenly snaps, that causes
such a high mortality.
Appel,
“If it were possible to issue regula-
tions against heart disease, if the
heart were susceptible to the quaran-
tine procedure, if it were an infec-
tion spread by contact and thus capa-
ble of control by health officials, heart
disease would soon be compelled to
give way to public health efforts. But
such is not the case.
“Heart disease is an individual
matter and to a large extent is to
be controlled, if controllable, only “by
the person involved. Conduct of one’s
life habits has undoubtedly something
to do with the development or non-
development of this trouble ; frequent-
ly it is the sole cause. Rules to pro-
tect one against the onslaughts of
heart disease, even if it is a result-
ant condition due to childhood infec-
tion, can be stated with more or less
assurance. The difficulty lies in the
inability to develop in the average
man or woman a heart consciousness.
‘Everything’s moving smoothly, why
worry?’ is the general, and incident-
ally, the natural attitude. But that
doesn’t stop making hearts stop.
“People who are always ill, or think
they are, or are afraid they will be,
are not an attractive type. There are
too many of these trouble hunters in
the world today. But it is one thing
to be a fanatic and quite another to
view your bedy and the relation of
your daily habits to it in a sensible,
logical and safe manner.
“A heart complex or any other kind
of fear is damaging. But to realize
that you have a heart, and that its
proper functioning is in a measure
based on how you treat it, is only
common sense—and not so common at
that. Now for some helpful rules:
“1. Do not over-eat.
“2. Do not under-exercise.
“3. Do not over-exercise.
“4, Plenty of sleep.
“5. Be sparing of stimulants. This
includes coffee, tea and tobacco.
“6. Don’t worry.
“7. Visit your dentist twice a year.
“8. Have a physical examination
every year.
“All these rules are important. It
will not pay to disregard any of them.
But whatever you do, be sure to carry
out rule number eight. A visit to
your doctor, who is capable of locat-
ing deteriorating heart tendencies
long before you will ever be conscious
of them, may add many years to your
life. Take your heart, therefore, to
your docter for examination. And
thus thwart its possible intention of
taking you on a long, long journey.
Have a heart!”
Dealers Advised to Leave Inspector’s
Stamp on Meat.
An efficient inspection service is
maintained by the United States gov-
ernment to assure the meat buyer
that he is getting a sound, wholesome
product that was prepared in a clean,
sanitary meat-packing establishment.
Meats which pass the rigid govern-
ment inspection are marked by a
stamp “U. S. Insp’d & P’s’d.” “The
stamp is absolutely harmless,” the
United States department of agricul-
ture declares in commenting on re-
ports that some dealers frequently cut
it off of carcasses and also retail cuts
of meat. The marking fluid is a vege-
table coloring material made of ap-
proved ingredients and is as harmless
as fruit juices. The inspection stamp
is put on all wholesale cuts of in-
spected beef, veal, pork, lamb, and
mutton, and is the United States gov-
ernment’s assurance that the meat
was from a healthy animal and was
prepared in a strictly sanitary man-
ner. The government inspectors first
examine the live animals and follow
through each process of preparing
fresh meat or meat products for
market.
This protection, which the United
States department of agriculture pro-
vides under authority from Congress,
enables consumers to distinguish
properly inspected meat from that
which has not been slaughtered and
prepared under such a safeguard.
Consumers, therefore, should request
dealers not to cut off the inspection
stamp, since its removal destroys the
official assurance as to the meat’s
wholesomeness.
The Driver's Risk.
A few more decisions like the: one
of the United States Supreme court
ruling that automobile drivers, not
trains, take the risk at crossings,
should have a very beneficial effect,
but will it? :
The Supreme court emphasized the
decisions as a *once for all” rule of
conduct for the control of courts, but
even the courts do not seem to have
learned—at least some of them—that
the automobile driver who gets him-
self hit by a train, and not the train,
is responsible.
This has been fixed as the rule of
law. It is also the rule of common
sense. Trains operate on schedules
over a fixed route. They travel at a
high rate of speed and they are very
apt to kill people who get in front
of them.
These are facts that should be
known to every grown person. If there
are individuals who do not know them,
then they have no more business driv-
ing an automobile than a maniac.
But the truth is that in practically
every crossing accident, the real
cause is carelessness and not a lack
of knowledge as to the facts. In the
case appealed to the Supreme court,
on which there was a recent ruling,
the victim was a merchant who fre.
quently crossed the track where he
was killed. The Supreme court jus-
tice who wrote the opinion said it was
plain that his familiarity with the
danger did not relieve him from re-
sponsibility for his own death.
The great trouble seems to be that
the chance-taker at crossings never
sees himself as the victim of a cross-
ing accident. He views it imperson-
ally, thinking of the poor fellow who
hasn’t brains enough to escape being
hit by a train. Then, didn’t have
gumption enough to take the precau-
tion that is necessary at every cross-
ing, regardless of the driver’s famili-
arity with it.
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