The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-05-29

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tiful white rice is popular with the
women-rice with nearly all the best
food elements milled out of it-for
brown rice is not pretty and it will
not 'keep"-mainly for the reason
that it isn't cooked.
Many other food products are dis
carded because they don't look good
on the table. Dried fruit that has had
the life bleached out of it is preferred
to fruit that is of darker color and
that contains highly nutritive consti-
tuents. Bananas are up to 30 cents
a dozen The light yellow ones, unfit
for human consumption because of
the unconverted starch they contain,
are selected by housekeeperS, while
the darkskinned fruit, the only edible
kind, is rejected. SO the good bananas
are thrown into the garbage pail and
the bad, because unripe and indigest-
ible, ones are saved and eaten.
Now please don't take my little word
for any of this, but read the literature
of Voegtlin, Attwater and Vadder,
our highest food authorities, and you
will learn something about real food
economy.
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nutriment and digestibility. The mill
ers, with their money invested in ma
chinery to rob cereals of their vital
elements as human food, with their
processes and products all standard
lied and therefore not to be altered,
will tell you there's nothing in this
kind of tallk-that flour is flour though
the life is all bolted and bleached out
of it; but the scientists will say that
to get nutriment is what we eat for,
and that the lovely bleached flour
bread of the housewife comes nearer
to being the staff of death than of
life.
Fowls will live in perfect health
for months on an exclusive diet OF
whole wheat flour or underground
(old-fashioned) corn meal" says Carl
VOegtlin, professor of pharmacology
of the United States Public Health
Service IF these animals are fed.
however, on highly milled products
they will die within a month" And
yet it is these highly milled prod
ucts that we are eating right now in
wartimel Economy Oh, dear house
wife, you and your lovely white bread
and beautiful yellow cakel Do you
know what the word economy means
PROFESSOR JdIIh OH FOOus
Recently at Berkeley l had a long
talk with Myer E. Jaffa, professor of
nutrition at the university. Professor
Jaffa said that food which lacked the
germ quality was also lacking in
nutriment This was particularly true
of rice, flour and corn. He urges the
use of brown rice and says that it
should be steamed instead of boiled,
or that if boiled the water should not
be discarded. The result of rice pro-
cessing, he said is a more attractive
grain but one extremely low in min
eral matter and minus other valuable
ingredients In other words, most
of the vitamins were lost. The same
thing was true, in general way, OF
flour and meal, though the white
bread made by the best bakers contain
eded to 10 per cent of gluten. But
he quoted Captain Edward B. Vedder
of the United States Medical Corps, a
noted authority, to the effect that all
wheat bread should be whole wheat
Professor Jaffa has been holding
conferences with the Council of De-
tense and recommending various food
economics.
1.-THE food we give to our animals
retold me, 'is the best, because it is
the highest in nutrltlVe value. HumaI
food is the poorest. The people neec
education on these points. This coun
try spends 100000 for maintaining
a bureau that recommends ANNA
foods, but next to nothing is spen
in this way for human beings. Tit
government looks out for the animals
and God looks out for the infants
and He generally takes them. Wha
science knows as deficiency diseases
among them pellagra and beri-beri
are the result of the criminal waste o
the vital elements in foodstuffs. an
recommending macaroni as potat
substitute, for when cooked it ha
about the same food value, but cookies
macaroni costs only 215 cents poun
as against 51a cents pound for cook
ed potatoes"