The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-07-23
WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR
VERSUS The WHITE FLOUR

The food value OF white bread
against that of whole wheat has
caused controversy for several years.
Some being emphatic as regards the
use of whole wheat against that of
white bread and others the reverse. G.
e. Manschot, secretary of the Globe
Milling Co., in reply to an article in
the Chicago Herald by an Indiana
miller, argues the case of white flour
against whole wheat flour, and he
seems to think he has made a final ar
gument when he quotes an Indiana
doctor as saying that white bread is
far more thoroughly and completely
digested than whole wheat bread"
But says the Indiana miller, that is
one of the chief things that is the mat
ter with it.
81 fail to see this point" said Mr..
Manschot, "for white bread and the
whitest of the white, is the best, most
healthful, and most nutritious bread"
In an Life Extension Institute ar
ticle, one of the greatest hygiene ex-
perts has this to say: "In order to do
their work properly the intestines
have to be supplied with certain
amount of bulk or ballast Gndigestible
cellulose). This bulk hits against the
sides of the intestines and stimulates
them to action" re
The coarse, indigestible matter in
the whole wheat bread furnishes the
bulk of ballast" The lack of it in the
white bread furnishes the condition
that makes three out of five people in
heading for all-sick.
"Now, nature is not fool" said Mr..
Manschot. Man, insofar as he is ma
tural attains to a considerable de-
gree of instructive WISDOM" he de-
clared. Furthermore" he continued,
1t is not a question of the amount of
nitrogen in a given food but of the
amount which is available for the
body, in other words, digestible in it's
Interior While there is larger
amount of nitrogen in whole wheat
-four than in white -four, the whole of
husks, which are as utterly indigesti-
BILE in the fOOd-tube as so much saw
dust or cOcoanut mating. AS regards
the coarse idigestible matter which
the esteemed miller makes so much
Of, will quote DR.. Woods Hutchinson,
A. NJ, NJ D., one of the foremost food
experts in the world, who says:
white flour, red meat, and blue
blood make the tricolor flag of con-
quest The boosted superior nutritive
value of whole grain and cereals is
absolutely without foundation. They
are good foods in their place, but that
place is a long way down the column
from white bread. To give the devil his
due, however, we hasten to state that
it is this very presence Of large per-
centage of utterly indigestible residue
which gives this food it's greatest
value-laxtive effect upon the bowels.
This is purely mechanical and due to
cous coat of the intestines by the
sharp, horny, husky particles of bran
which are present, particularly in
graham meal, in fact, valued chiefly
for the element in itzthat will not di-
gest, but passes unchanged through
the body, actively stimulating the pro-
pulsive powers of the alimentary canal
in the process. But even this feature
is not altogether devoid of danger. 1t
was found out, many years ago, that
any attempt to eat brown bread three
times daily without intermission very
quickly resulted in setting up diar-
-hoea, with we'll marked disturbance
Of the stomach"
D T STAJIMANN INITTDEn