Hints to Persons Suffering With Flatulence

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 18, 1911

Hints to Persons Suffering With Flatulence

1. LET your diet be simple. Two or three articles will be sufficient at one meal, and they should be such as will agree well together.

2. Avoid tea and coffee, and all drinking at meals. Cultivate a fondness for solid foods, which require some chewing.

3. Avoid coarse vegetables, such as onions, turnips, cabbage, etc. Baked potatoes, green peas, and very tender carrots may usually be allowed, but no vegetables should be taken in quantity.

4. Well-toasted bread (zwieback) may well form the staple food at all meals.

5. Avoid fried foods, pastries, and rich, greasy foods generally. They are slow of digestion, and on that account favorable to the formation of gas.

6. Avoid the tough skins of prunes, and use even the pulp of this fruit sparingly.

7. Use freely sweet oranges, good mellow apples (fresh or baked), apricots and peaches, steamed figs, dates, ripe bananas, and, in season, cherries, raspberries, and strawberries.

8. Avoid cheese of all kinds, meat, oysters, etc. Use only sterilized milk, and that rather sparingly.

9. Drink a glass of water the last thing before retiring and the first thing in the morning.

10. Use whole-meal bread or wheat flakes if there is a tendency to constipation, and take sufficient exercise out-of-doors to keep the muscular system in

good, healthy trim and well toned up.

11. Be extremely careful to avoid anything approaching excess in the quantity of food taken, and chew every morsel thoroughly.

12. Limit yourself to three meals daily, and let the last meal (to be taken not later than 7 P. M.) be very light, consisting simply of fruit, or fruit and bread; allow five and one-half to six hours between the meals.

13. Finally, notice carefully the foods that exaggerate your difficulty, and avoid them.—English Good Health.