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Editorial
March 20, 1914
The Meridian Times
Meridian, Ada County, Idaho
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Dr. R.R. Daniels argues that sugar, while a necessary concentrated food, should be consumed sparingly as it inhibits digestion, ferments into poison, irritates the digestive system, and contributes to various ailments like nervousness and rheumatism.
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Sugar is Dangerous.
(By Dr. R R. Daniels.)
Sugar is a highly concentrated food, representing the principle food elements of bread, rice, potatoes and, in fact, of all grains. It represents the starch of these foods, and starch is a very necessary food material.
Soldiers have been able to endure long marches on the ready fuel supplied by sugar, but regardless of this fact sugar, like all other concentrated foods, should not be used as a constant article of diet, except in very limited quantities.
One of the important reasons for avoiding sugar is that when it is present in a meal in any appreciable amount, it checks the secretions of the digestive juices in the stomach and thus reduces the amount of all the digestive fluids, from the stomach down. This means that there is going to be an interference with the digestion of the meal. If you eat a considerable amount of sugar with a meal containing, for instance, meat, you prevent the secretion of sufficient digestive fluid to digest the meat; hence the meat will decompose and poison you.
When sugar is present in the stomach alone no digestive fluid whatever is secreted so when you eat candy between meals, it is not digested.
Another reason for avoiding sugar is that it ferments very easily, and in the process of fermentation it becomes more of a poison than a food. Furthermore, as the sugar ferments it sets up the same process in other foods, and thus can change a meal from food to poison.
Sugar is frequently the cause, direct or indirect, of many of our digestive disturbances. Sugar is an irritant to the mucous membranes of both the stomach and the bowels, and much more irritating are the substances formed as the undigested sugar ferments in the bowels. In this way sugar may cause directly catarrh of the stomach and intestines, and indirectly it may cause constipation, biliousness, and the "sluggish liver." Nervousness, rheumatism, catarrh, too much flesh and too little flesh are some of the disorders that may be caused by eating sugar in considerable amounts.
(By Dr. R R. Daniels.)
Sugar is a highly concentrated food, representing the principle food elements of bread, rice, potatoes and, in fact, of all grains. It represents the starch of these foods, and starch is a very necessary food material.
Soldiers have been able to endure long marches on the ready fuel supplied by sugar, but regardless of this fact sugar, like all other concentrated foods, should not be used as a constant article of diet, except in very limited quantities.
One of the important reasons for avoiding sugar is that when it is present in a meal in any appreciable amount, it checks the secretions of the digestive juices in the stomach and thus reduces the amount of all the digestive fluids, from the stomach down. This means that there is going to be an interference with the digestion of the meal. If you eat a considerable amount of sugar with a meal containing, for instance, meat, you prevent the secretion of sufficient digestive fluid to digest the meat; hence the meat will decompose and poison you.
When sugar is present in the stomach alone no digestive fluid whatever is secreted so when you eat candy between meals, it is not digested.
Another reason for avoiding sugar is that it ferments very easily, and in the process of fermentation it becomes more of a poison than a food. Furthermore, as the sugar ferments it sets up the same process in other foods, and thus can change a meal from food to poison.
Sugar is frequently the cause, direct or indirect, of many of our digestive disturbances. Sugar is an irritant to the mucous membranes of both the stomach and the bowels, and much more irritating are the substances formed as the undigested sugar ferments in the bowels. In this way sugar may cause directly catarrh of the stomach and intestines, and indirectly it may cause constipation, biliousness, and the "sluggish liver." Nervousness, rheumatism, catarrh, too much flesh and too little flesh are some of the disorders that may be caused by eating sugar in considerable amounts.
What sub-type of article is it?
Science Or Medicine
What keywords are associated?
Sugar Dangers
Digestion Interference
Fermentation Poison
Health Disorders
Dietary Limits
What entities or persons were involved?
Dr. R R. Daniels
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Dangers Of Excessive Sugar Consumption
Stance / Tone
Warning Against Sugar As A Dietary Staple
Key Figures
Dr. R R. Daniels
Key Arguments
Sugar Is A Concentrated Food Like Starch In Grains But Should Be Limited
Sugar Checks Digestive Juices Secretion, Interfering With Meal Digestion Especially With Meat
Sugar Alone In Stomach Is Not Digested
Sugar Ferments Easily, Turning Into Poison And Affecting Other Foods
Sugar Causes Digestive Disturbances, Irritates Mucous Membranes, And Leads To Catarrh, Constipation, Biliousness, Sluggish Liver, Nervousness, Rheumatism, And Flesh Imbalances