Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1890 — Cold Food. [ARTICLE]

Cold Food.

Eat all cold food slowly. Digestion will not begin till the temperature of the food has been raised by the heat at the stomach to 98 degrees. Hence the more beat that oan be imparted to is by slow mastication, the better. The precipitation of a large quantity of cold food into the stomach by fast eating may, and often does, cause discomfort and indigestion, and every oo» oasion of this kind results in a meas* ureable injury to the digestive functions. Ice water drunk with cold food of course Increases the mischief. Hoi drinks—hot water, weak tea, coffest chocolate, etc—will, on the contrary, help to prevent it But eat slowly, anyway.