The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-12-21

ovERUSE OF SUGAR.
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Candy manufacturers have diligently
propagated the idea that sugar is a
highly important food for children
that IL promotes the development of
the body, and hence that "pure-sugar
candies" are extremely wholesome, al
most necessary in fact. for the we'll
being of growing children. There can
be no greater error The love for
Sweet things is a natural instinct, but
this natural instinct should be salts
fed with natural sweet things. Cane
sugar is not natural sweet stuff; il
is an artificial product. obtained by
concentrating the juices of grass like
plants or the roots or the sap Of trees.
Commercial cane sugar is obtained
from the sugar cane or the beet root.
The sap of the maple tree contains
cane sugar, as does also the sap of
certain palms. Cane sugar is not nat
urally found. to any considerable eX-
tent, i'm natural human foods. The
only exception to this statement is
found in a few varieties of dates, and
these varieties seem to be defective
products. In perfect dates the cane
sugar found i'm the sap of the trees is,
before thhe process of deposit in the
fruit, converted into fruit sugar by a
ferment provided for this purpose. In
a few varieties of dates this ferment
Is lacking. so that the cane sugar is
deposited instead
II is evident that cane sugar is a
crude and imperfect product. It re-
sorbed and utilized. The fruit SUI
Ia, 90 4,
er starch. i'm a completely digested
form and ready for immediate use i'm
the blood tissues. In many persons
the digestive ferment necessary for
the convention of cane sugar into fruit
sugar appears 20 be lacking as in GER
tain varities of dates. The sugar is
consequently not readily absorbed and
undergoes fermentation with a forma-
ton of gas and various resulting in
Conveniences.
The use of cane sugar is. without
doubt responsible for much of the in
digestion from which children suffer.
The excessive carbo- hydrates taken
into the body not infrequently give
Iise to a state known as acidosis, a
form of administration. in which
there are most pronounced evidences
of general malnutrition.
1t natural foodstuffs lime is found
associated with starch and other nu-
tritive elements. When cane sugar is
freely used, however, the supply of
lime is deficient for the lime natur-
ally associated with the sugar in the
plant is separated in the process of
refining The average American eats
one fifth OF a pound Of cane sugar
daily a considerable part OF which is
in the form of candy. This is sufficient
to deprive him of at least one seventh
of the amount of lime which he re-
CURES. Professor Sherman has shown
that the same sort of starvation takes
place through the use of meat as a
source or protein. In corn or wheat the
protein is associated with the lime
whereas i'm the flesh of animals the
lime is lacking, having been concen-
tarted in the bones. The half pound
of meat which the average American
consumes daily deprives him Of anoth-
er seventh of the lime which his body
requires. The. combination of cane
sugar or candy and meat thus doubles
the mischief, reducing the amount OF
lime To less than three-fourths what
the body requires.
The result of this lime starvation is
an increasing number of cases of bone
disease, deformities of various sorts
ricketts,. carries. tuberculosis of the bone
etc. one Of the most pronounced evil
dences Of this form of degeneracy Il
to be seen i'm the decay of the teeth
which has now come to be so nearl,
universal among the people of th'
United States that it is rare to find {
person twenty years of age who ha'
not already lost a considerable num-
Der of teeth.-Good Health.