Arizona republican., 1920-11-12
THE BEWIL.DERED
 EATER
by Frederio J. Haakin

WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 12-Sad | Nno confused must be the man who | tries to eat scientifically in accordance | with the information he finds in the public prints. Every few months new dietetic god and new salvation s offered him and each seems com pletely 10 displace the old one.
 some of us can remember back to the | ufne. for example. when buttermilk vas to make new men of us all. Many persons ot the older generation still -etain faith in buttermllk as a pro- longer of human life which is like unto the faith of a little child in San "a Claus.
 But more recently attention was d. verted from buttermilk to a mysterious thing called the calorie. Lots of peo- De thought a calorie was itself some thing 10 eat. but the more sophisti- cated grasped the idea that 1t was unit Of heat and energy. You need q certain number of calories in order to oo your work in the world and too many or too few will ruin you The cA1orse counter. who computed the number of calosies In every dish set cetore him became so common that ono great chain of restaurants placed the number of calories in parenthesis after each article on It's menu.
 Then. stiu more recently, the calorie as eclipsed in popularity by a suu more mysterious class of things known az vitamines. A vitamine. we gath cred. was not n unit of measurement like a calorie, but an actual substance which was necessary to health. It occurs in milxs. eggs, fresh fruit and vegetables. We ourselves went into the matter with many experts and set forth the facts fin detail in these col umns. They need not be repeated. Suffice it to say that unless you get enough vitamines your machinery will not work.
 Mineral Starvation
 But now new complexity has been introduced into this business of eat Ing. which the ancients regarded as a simple pleasure and which has become such a complex science for us. The latest bugaboo of the dinner table is generally known as mineral starva- ucn-" A Boston dentist, whose work was recently described in the Haskin Letter. has reached the conclusion that our teeth decay, not because of the particles of food deposited on the sur face of them. but because our habitual diet does not contain enough mineral building material to keep them in re- pair. And this same idea of mineral starvation has been advanced by many other students of the food situation. Once against guinea pigs, dogs and pigeons have been sacrificed to prove the point. Fed on some of the denim eraiized foods which make up large a part of the civilized diet it is said, they practically starve to death.
 This is the idea of mineral starva- ton. as we understand it; A great many of the foods which we eat are refined. This means that certain DOT tons of the natural product are re- moved. In some cases this is done by manufacturing processes and some times by cooking processes in the home Sometimes 1t is done merely because we are in the habit of eating the food that way. and sometimes because it is necessary to refine the foods in or der to improve their keeping and ship ping qualities.
 Disadvantage of Bolted Flour
 The leading refined manufactured foods. 1t appears. are the white bclted wheat flour of which our bread is made. the manufactured corn meal oi commerce, and the polished rice. Some investigators have taken the belligerent position that food manufacturers are poisoning the American people, They have in a word, tried the usual Amer ican stunt of finding a scapegoat and raising a moral issue. As a matter oi fact there is none. The manufacturers
 
 that it is impossible to buy whole whea bread in many American cities toda, Graham bread is not the same thng. But if even one housewife in ten be gan regularly deanding whole whea bread. it would make its appearance The manufacturers are not slow 10 sat iEfy any paying demand. And you can blame them for not trying to put orl a product for which there is no de rnand. One manufacturer a few year ago did try putting on the market tn natural brown rice instead of polishe rice, in the interests of health. H could not sell it.
 Taking the blame unto ourselves then. let us see why it Is that the re fined foods are not good for us. l making our white bolted flour, the mil iers remove the outer husk of th wheat In so doing they greatly re ruce it's content of mineral and ia leaving largely pure protein. The san happens in the commercial process 0f making corn meal. In like mann' the brown husk of the rice contain valuable minerals. while the white DO ished rice contains almost none. the tropics the disease known as Der beri follaws upon eating polished ric and is prevented by a diet or natur brown rice.
 These minerals which are remove are necessary to the building or pol and tissue But they are also nece sary to keep the blood in it's prop &l chemical composition. The protein lN to make the blood acid. These minera keep 1t alkaline. A great many of O typical diseases are due to acid bloc
 Eat Potatoes Baked
 Many of the clements in our diet tn might counteract this tendency to a' dosis of the blood. are demineraliz before we eat them. Thus the p tato is a valuable alkaline food. b if boiled and mashed most of it's su stance is ieached away. It should
 eaten baked with the skin on, parts of the skin should be eaten, t
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