The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-04
WHAT WE MUST EAT TO BE HEALTHY
No. 5

In continuing the talk on sugar it may be necessary to remind my used broadly. It is used to ues u cribe any sweet extracnFe tnat human ingenuity has brought forth: This includes cane sugar, DeeI sugar, glucose. syrups. etc: We tnen get an idea as to what extenE sugar has entered into the diet of Amer jeans.
 Most candies are made of glu- cose. This is a sweet pr1nc1ple oe rived from the action of sulphurlc acid upon corn starch. Glucose. IS cheaper than cane sugar With the result that for economc reasons IL enters into the composition or all cheaper candies and many com mercial foods. How often have we heard it said to parents, Do not let your children eat cheap candies The good in this advice follows out of the fact that we are less liable to eat as much of the dearef candies because of their cost. As a choice between expensive candies and cheaper candies the body does not recognize the distinction. They products. They contain no miner als, no vitamines. They create acid salts in the blood.
 The great commercial instinct today, to produce quantity in the food line, has been at the expense of quality. We see it especially in those foods where sweetening is necessary. Glucose adds still an other property it gives body or bulk, with the result that most jams, jellies and pies are loaded up with this mixture, displacng the essen tial fruit body which they should contain.
 1 It is sad commentary on our 1 food industries that the tendency of | most producers has been toward in l feriority of product. Their con- l sciences give no warning because they feel justified in 1essening the l cost of the article. To illustrate: {. large pie bakery sells, among ! other pies, Gall adulterated) lemon l meringue pies. The analysis of l this pie showed it to be made up of 1 glucose for sweetening and body, corn starch to further give it bulk, 1 favored with an artificial lemon. l extract, colored with a yellow ami i line dye; the meringue made i from egg powder and glucose. Is it l any wonder that there is a crying l need in this country for education | in our schools; to teach our chill
 dren what to eat and what to avoid.
 Some countries would not permit the sale of such pies. Their health laws prohibit such products. Amer
 ica, unfortunately, has trai1ed be-
 hind in her laws which regulate
 food industries, and it looks quite
 hopeless for the making of strict
 1d"S lo CuID these abuses.
 However, the truth cannot be 1 kept back. Education will correct these evils. Our greatest author
 ities declare that natural immunity
 depends on nutrition and that one sided nutrition with sugars, syrups
 and candies destroys this immunity in children; and that tuberculal
 children succumb more quickly
 when nourished with sugar an6 , l starches.
 The sugar habit is usually start ed in infancy. Mothers milk fail
 and cows milk is substituted. A
 cows milk has a lower percentag , of sugar than mothers milk, arti hcia1 sugar is added to bring LII the sugar content, with the resul , that a sugar appetite is created ] Not a sugar hunger, as some doc
 tors have stated; for there is quit
 distinction between the two words T If we have hunger established w
 will eat most anything; wherea = appetite is that craving of the indi
 V1dual for certain food substance
 caused by repeated indulgences i e those foods.
 If you doubt this, try orderin from a bill-of-fare when you ar , not hungry. Appetite will then as t sert itself. But if you are trul c hungry, almost anything your eye
 taste.
 Here, then, we have the seed = sown for future trouble. The chil,
 unless restrained, always shows i II candy appetite. This, with the hun p ger instinct for bulk in the form
 White flour, gives that unsour d body condition wherein we have il
 blood loaded with products. devo e or organic mineral elements. TT d teeth and bones must pay the pe1 u atty. We get calcium starvatio s; It was formerly thought that too
 oecay was altogether the result
 a local condition within the mout
 Most authorities today do not b
 heve this. Too much evidence
 being presented to show that too
 uecay IS both local and constit
 t1onal. with more emphasis upon f
 constitutional side. The tooth dec; Ill problem has not been solved. B 1t will be found, one of these da, that foods play the greatest role ar its development