Principles of Good Digestion

with the starch molecules. And dry, prepared breakfast foods, such as corn flakes, wheat flakes or puffed rice, are usually drenched with hot or cold milk or cream, plus sugar or syrup. This also saturates the flakes and leaves no room for the saliva to make direct contact with the starch molecules, which need to be broken up by the saliva to enable digestion to take place.

The sad part of it is that this well-established breakfast habit everywhere, supposedly for the sake of health, has caused so many ills to the human race that it is hard to believe, until it is traced through thousands of cases of indigestion and its train of illness that follows. The aftereffects of this type of breakfast have been a big headache to many physicians and patients. Diabetes is only one of the many consequences of the inability of the body chemistry (of the pancreas) to digest the starches that were unprepared by the saliva in the mouth, plus the addition of white sugar taken daily. The artificial sweeteners are even more detrimental to health.

In children, such breakfasts as mentioned above have caused all sorts of catarrhal and mucous symptoms of the throat, nose and sinus congestion, as well as tonsilitis [tonsillitis], adenoids, eye and ear trouble, and susceptibility to colds. We often wonder why children should be so subject to these ailments as a general rule, when the young animals living in Nature do not have these ailments.

For over fifty years I have searched for an answer to this problem in a busy practice until I found that even adult indigestion is rarely diagnosed, properly treated or relieved in general practice all over the world. This came as a shock to me when I was consulted by patients of wealth and means who had traveled to a dozen or more countries in the world in their official capacity and who had sought the answer to their health problems from eminent practitioners in those countries, but found no relief. By the Grace of God I was able to help them when all other methods had failed. We can easily brush this off and say that the general public's habits