The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-20

portions of the food.
 This mischievous skill of mans in terference causes the starch to pass through the body as glucose, unoxi- dized, unappropriated and worse than useless. The starch must be rendered soluble for transference as a useful foodstun through the system of either animal or vegetable life.
 The lower animals are seldom trou- bled with diabetes. Before the present processes of refining bleaching and spelling four and meal became com mon there were few cases of diabetes among men. women and children, But now the disease is rapidly increasing The census returns for 1850 in this country, as given by an eminent au- thorfty, showed deaths from diabetes to be 72 per 100000, and in 1880 they rose to 198 per 100000 and have been increasing ever since. ~-
 The increased mortality from dia- betes is chiefly due to our civilization having introduced through the chan nels of commerce and manufacture a cereal foodstuff which is sing1larly impoverished and wrongly made. It stomach.
 In wheat there is about 75 per cent. Of starch. and combined with that starch are certain other most essential constituents which were naturally de- veloped in the grain during it's growth Some of these clements which are combined with the starch in it's for nation are gluten, nitrogen, carbon, chlorine calcium. phosphorus, surphur, sodium, potassium, iron, magnesium tial, though inf1nitesimal in quantity compared with the starch.
 Nature placed all these clements to- gether. and where they are all retain ed together in the foods the starch is easily and natural changed by lifess ffa oh ! -k, s.-t flour from which the above mineral salts have been eliminated Is fmpos- sible; that is, it is impossible to render It soluble so that the dextrine and glucose can be appropriated and oxi- d1zed by the various ferments of the digestive tube to yield up proper heat and energy to the body.
 new epoch in physiological cheu1fs- try has been opened up showing that the "diabetic centre" is not in the brain but in the stomach There is am pie proof that diabetes is caused by abnormal digestion and bad assimila- tion- It may be accounted for chiefly from large ingestion of impoverished cereal foodstuf which is deficient in mineral salts and so rendered incap- able of supplying the waste in tissue.
 In addition to this there is the alarming increase in the consumption of sugar from the moderate five pounds per head for each man, woman and child per annum to Seventy-f1ve pounds per head now. The sugar now in use is also refined to death by the of the very essential elements to health in order to make it white.
 The confectionery factories of our are said to have increased from 2,900 in 1890 with an output of about $56, ,000, 900, to 4,300 in 1900, with an output of $s,000, COG, 600. How much glucose is used in these factories is difficult to determine.
 It is no wonder that diabetes, ,Bright's disease, gout, rheumatism, indigestion and cancer increase in proportion to the increased quantities of starchl foods and sweets consumed. No won fer that 3,000,000 of the people are ser ously i'll all the time and three tirnes hat number are buying patent medf- ,ines to relieve them of symptoms threatening to lead on to more serious trouble.
 Good digestion means good health, put the dige stion cannot continue good ong when the saliva, gastric juices md blood are gradually poisoned by he constant, everyday use of starch md sweets. They are artificial and lot natural food products and so the ,esult is unnatural condition.
 F. c. Ireland, B. Sc., in N Y. World.