| OMIT | EAT |
| All acid fruits | Bananas, very ripe |
| All sweets except sweet fruits | Green salads |
| in limited quantities | Liberal quantity of fresh |
| Cane-sugar | green vegetables |
| Condiments | Limited quantity of blood-less |
| Coffee and tea | meat, such as fish and white meat |
| Cream | of tender fowl |
| Fatty foods | Limited quantity of coarse cereals |
| Gravies | Limited quantity of eggs and |
| Pastries | milk—sweet and sour |
| Stimulating and intoxicating | Melons |
| beverages | Nuts |
| Subacid fruits in extreme cases | Potatoes |
| Tobacco | Sweet fruits—limited quantity |
| White bread | Wheat bran |
| Whole wheat, thoroughly cooked | |
| Whole wheat bread—sparingly |
IMPORTANCE OF WATER-DRINKING
The lack of body-moisture is one of the causes of supersecretion of acid, therefore water is of primary importance in removing the causes of the above disorders. It should be drunk freely immediately on rising, and just before retiring. From two to three glasses should also be drunk at each meal, especially in treating severe cases. Copious water-drinking also relieves irritation of the stomach, thus reducing abnormal appetite.
Patients afflicted with superacidity never have natural thirst.
CONSTIPATION
THE CAUSE
This disorder might be called "civilizatis," so universal has it become among civilized people.
Several conditions may conspire to cause constipation—