1934 Here's How to be Healthy by B G Hauser

To Be Healthy

of civilization which need little chewing have given many of us a quite inadequate dental equipment. Therefore many people show symptoms of indigestion, distress, gas formation,simply because the food has not been properly masticated and mixed with the digestive juices. For those who havelost their teeth or who have makeshift repairs in their mouths, Health Cocktails are a boon. Here at last is a food they can digest and make use of. Just as the aged should be spared from inclement weather, from hard work, from too much activity,so their digestive systems should be spared the necessity of coping with the digestive problemsthat the younger stomach is expected to solve. We feed our babies carefully, methodi cally. We weigh their food, we modify it, we take special pains in feeding them. We might well give this same courtesy and care to our elders, who have made our lives pos sible. Were we to prepare grandmother's [17] Grandmothers and Grandfathers