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FAULTY FOOD COMBINATIONS.

H.E.H. writes.--I should like your opinion of the statement of
the late Mr A. Broadbent, that fruit when taken with starchy food
by dyspeptics delays digestion, and that the digestion of starchy
foods and vegetables occupied only one-third of the time needed
for the digestion of starch with fruit. I have lived on a strict
vegetarian diet and observed the laws of hygiene for two and a
half years, to rid myself of dyspepsia, with great success,
having increased my weight by thirty-six pounds; for the last
nine months of this time I have lived on a largely "unfired"
diet, but am still troubled with acid risings and flatulence and
cannot account for it. Will you kindly enlighten me on the
subject?

I am a carpenter by trade and get eight hours in the open air
every day. I take a tumbler of distilled water hot with the juice
of one orange at 6 A.M., breakfast at 7.30 A.M., dinner at 12
noon and tea at 6 P.M., all consisting of Wallace unfermented
bread and biscuits, various fruits (mostly apples, bananas and
tomatoes) and nuts, about 1/2oz. at a meal; also a little cheese,
about 1 oz. at a meal.

The late Mr A. Broadbent was quite right, in my opinion, when he
asserted that fruit taken with starchy foods delayed digestion.

To reap the true benefit from fruit it must be taken alone.

The dominant element in fruit is oxygen and the feature of oxygen is
its power to start the process of oxidation in decomposing and
disintegrating substances. It follows that when the stomach is filled
with fermenting food-stuffs, or the tissues are clogged with the
products derived from such, the oxidising action of fruit will be
correspondingly intense.

The Naturist who applies the Schroth Cure for the purpose of curing
chronic diseases uses fruit as his chief eliminating agent. The reader
will remember that the peasant healer, Schroth, made his patients take
dry stale rolls alone for three whole days, with nothing whatever to
drink, and on the fourth day, he gave them a full bottle of white
wine, which t