Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-17
CHAPTER 81

CHAPTER 81
Glucose Foods Used r. So Ioorm of
Jams, Jellies, Table Syrups, Can
dies, Pie and Cake Filters, and Other
Forms of Sweets in Connection
With the Impoverished Breadstuffs,
Griddle Cakes, Waffles, and Biscuits
of the Poorer CIasses, Contribute
Nothing to the Stamina of the Race
On the Contrary, There is Reason
to Believe That Excessive InduI-
gence Is Denatured Sweets of any
Kind, Such as Refined Beet Sugar,
Cane Sugar, Glucose, or Corn Syrup,
Is Followed by Serious Injury to
Health.
Like patent flour, farina, white bis
cults and crackers, polished rice, de-
germinated corn meal. corn flakes,
corn grits, pearled barley, refined rye
flour, bakers white bread, the refined
and demineralized sugars and hydroI-
lied starches, such as beet and cane
sugar, glucose or corn syrup, are in
furious to the health of the people
when the people remain in ignorance
of the physiological laws that control
the processes of nutrition.
Taken in small quantities occas-
sionally any one OF these foodstuffs
consumed by itself cannot be seriously
harmful, as their manufacturers and
advocates assert, particularly when
consumed in the presence of the
varied and generous diet of the WE'LL
to-do, including meats, vegetables,
salads, fruits, cheese, milk, eggs and
whole grain foods, all of which, in
some measure, furnish the offsetting
substances so necessary to growth,
development, and the normal main
tenance of the body's functions.
But the fact is that all of these
Impoverished foods are used every
day in generous combination with
each other, thus reducing to the
minimum of safety and only too fire.
quently below that miSimum the
salts and colloids which are most es-
sential to life.
The study of Sherman, Mettler and
Sinclair of 13,031 typical American
meals, as reported by the United
States Department or Agriculture and
referred to here on another occasion
indicates the lamentable shortage OF
these salts and colloids in the diet OF
the common people.
The use of corn starch, glucose OF
corn syrup as a filler In the cheaper
ing of foodstuffs is Just as much a
fact that 1t requires the addition ot
acids, flavors and dyestuffs to make
such filled products saIable is just as
true to-day as it has been for year.
Glucose as tlller is the symbols OF
denatured carbohydrate foods and il
is the excess of these denatured car.
bohydrate foods in the diet of the av-
erage American faroily which is the
cause of many diseases, beginning in
constipation and ending in anaemia
tuberculosis, acidosis, and the dis
orders incident to an impaired vital.
ity or lowered resistance.
On Thursday, August 26, 1915, a
prominent official of one of the large
glucose manufacturing companies de.
clared to me that he recognized the
fact that a restricted diet of dena.
tured foods, whether glucose appears
among them or not will develor
many disorders in the body
Because we recognize these facts,
he said, I'VE are now striving to give
to the human animal the indispens.
able organic and inorganic mineral
salts and colloids of the steep-watel
of our corn syrup factory. Our corr
solids are the richest part of the corr