Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-07-26
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Amazing But Rarely Suspected
Truths About the Many
Things You Eat.
CBy ALFRED W. McCANND

the school children Oh New YORK lily,
as recorded by prominent dental sur
geons, cannot be ignored if the Amer
lean people are destined to heed the
warnings which their denatured bread
stuffs and cereal foods are serving up
on the enfeebled tissues of the human
body.
The natural bond between the chick
en- feeding experiment of the school
children and the school children's
teeth is not difficult to locate.
DR.. Louis Goldstein, New York City,
emphasizes the fact that the American
people, wo do not understand the laws
of nutrition which are symbOliZed by
whole wheat bread, and who therefore
disregard whole wheat bread in their
pursuit of white bread, have no means
Of systematically providing for them
selves or for their children the other
food elements upon which normal nu-
triton, including sound teeth depend.
He also emphasizes the fact that
where whole wheat bread is neglected
all the alkaline solubles of vegetable
origin are also likely to be neglected,
and that wherever these alkaline solu-
bles are neglected defective teeth con-
stitute a great part of the harvest Of
preventable human ills. These are his
words:
after examining the teeth of not
less than 400 school children in my
home neighbOrhOod here in the Bronx
1 have yet to see a perfect set of six
year molars (frst four permanent
teeth to appear in childhOOd.) These
teeth in nearly every instance were
entirely decayed. I have never OBJ
served a perfect set of teeth in any
American child and have but one adult
patient showing extremely good teeth.
She is a young woman"
DR.. Burtice E. Lawton, New York
City, declares: I'VE appear to be
growing wiser and weaker each year.
Our faulty teeth are undoubtedly the
result of an impoverished diet. We
see many defective teeth among those
in the best walks of life. Heredity
does not seem to greatly increase the
condition, for at present | have a pa
tient undergoing treatment a girl
who is the child of strong, robust par
ents.
For the past three years / have OBJ
served her teeth on an average OF once
a month. Her teeth have virtually
been starved and are suffering from
the absence of a sufficient quantity OF
lime salts. Had she been fed on good
old-fashiOned whole grain breads and
breakfast foods when a youngster she
would not be compelled to come under
my care now.
DR.. E. A. CrJstic, New York City, de-
clares: mo one in New York City
is eating the proper food these days.
Foreigners who come here with
history of natural foods behind them
possess solid tissues. They don not eat
the refined foods that are destroying
the vigor of this nation.
4 have had an opportunity to OBJ
serve the mouth condition of an Irish
girl before and after she had lost her
teeth. Upon the second day after her
arrival in the country she entered my
Office in the company of a girl friend.
Within the space of thirteen to sixteen
months time l found her with set
of both upper and lower plates.
Thirty years ago when the occasion
arose people could sit in a dentist
chair and have several teeth extracted
without wincing. To-day, so lacking
in nerves, energy and vitality are our
women that almost any of them after
the ordeal of one or two eXtractions
is on the verge of collapse. 1t is not
the climate, it is the food"
DR.. Robert w. Tagget, New York
City, declares: The siX-year molars
are decayed and in many cases COM
pletely gone by the time the child at
tains the age of seven or eight years.
Tt is almost impossible to save these
teeth in any instance.
German parents, who grew up on
the whole wheat and rye bread of
their native land, prior to the intro
duction of refined bread, have better
teeth than their children"
DIR. Samuel C. Newman, New York
CITY. declares: You cannot beat the
Italians for good teeth. They rarely
have more than one or two teeth mis-
sing, the others being perfect and as
hard as rocks To drill into their hard
tooth substance means to dull burr
after burr in the attempt.
Among the city children of my 10
cality I find soft and sensitive teeth.
The six year mOlars are usually gone
and in some instances have observ-
ed that they do not last longer than
six months after their eruption"
DR.. L H. KnOpf, New York City, de-
clares: The Italians, who do not eat
dainty food. have fine teeth. This fact
is significant"
DR.. Anton J. Hacker, New York
CITY. declares: Twenty-Five years
ago / had the opportunity of eXamin-
ing the teeth of the school children of
Worms. Germany; $50 families, exist
ing entirely on whole grain and veget-
able foods. were living within a school