Today, the foremost cause of digestive disorders is the “quick lunch habit.” This practice is popular to the modern businessman who puts more importance to his business than to his health. Upset stomach is not so much due to what you eat but on how you eat it. If your food is not thoroughly chewed, it will certainly be digested with difficulty when it reaches the stomach. If hasty eating becomes a habit, dyspepsia, along with other stomach complications, will surely result There is no exception. Nature is a stern credi¬tor, resenting any infraction of her laws. If you violate them, you will certainly suffer for it. And the severest penalties she inflicts are for transgressing the laws of digestion. Under the familiar title, dyspepsia, we group various distressing digestive disorders, most of which could be avoided by properly chewing the food. It is possible to restore youth and vigor to a person even after half a century of existence and be in excellent condition. But this cannot be done when serious digestive disorders exist. Until they are remedied, improvement will be slow. As the trouble is usually caused by hurried eating and, consequently, insufficient mastication, the logical remedy is to take more time at meals, and chew the food thoroughly. This change in habits alone will greatly improve the digestive conditions in a short time. The next step to the cure and treatment of dyspepsia is to strengthen the muscles of the stomach, for the digestion of food depends largely upon the strength of those muscles. If digestion only involves chemical process, it is applicable to use medications to seek relief. There are many medicines being advertised that claim to totally cure dyspepsia. However, digestion involves more than just chemical process. Muscles in the stomach need to be developed in order to gain strength to function well. This means medication only provides temporary relief and in this process, the victim is not totally cured of dyspepsia. And being a recurrent disease, the victim will just have to take medications every attack. This means the victim’s body will now depend on the drugs for relief as long as the disease is present. The remedy lies with one’s self, and, if the following brief directions are followed faith¬fully and persistently, any one will succeed as I have. Chew your food slowly that it may be thor¬oughly digested readily. Here is an exercise to strengthen the muscles of the stomach. This is a sit-up exercise, which can be easily performed. Lie on your back and bend your head well for¬ward. This action will contract and tense the abdominal muscles. When the head is dropped back to the horizontal position, those muscles will relax. These alternate contraction and relaxation exercises will, of themselves, materially strengthen the muscles; but percussion will greatly aid in producing that result. Therefore, as you alternately raise and lower the head, and thus contract and relax the muscles, strike the ab¬domen rapidly with your clenched fists. At first lightly, but afterwards increasing the force of the blow, as the muscles become stronger. They will be able to direct the blood to that part to produce a healthy circulation, and strengthen the digestive organs. Another excellent exercise is to place the palms of the hands firmly upon the abdomen and rub back and forth, as though using a washboard. These two exercises will also reduce any fatty deposit which may have accumulated, and are harmless, inexpensive, and far more effective than the most widely-advertised and most lauded "dyspepsia cures." I have suffered from chronic dyspepsia for over thirty years. I tried those advertised medicines to seek relief. They were prescribed by doctors and recommended by friends. But hurried meals, insufficient mastication, and weakness of the abdominal muscles caused my dyspepsia. So after doing the exercises I have devised, I was free of it. To those unfor¬tunates who are afflicted as I have been, I strongly urge the practice of these exercises for strengthening the abdominal muscles.
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