The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-31
What We Must Eat To Be
 Healthy
No. 4.

In dealing with the subject of diet | it becomes necessary to dwell upon a food the vast consumption of which | has become, in recent years in | recent years in Americas national | peril. I should not use the word food | because it is in no sense a food in the | terms we know food. I refer to sugar. |
 The figures of the Department of ommerce show the consumption of cane sugar in America is S1 pounds per person. These figures cover cane sugar only. Glucose candies and corn syrup were not included. So that if we combine they arious forms of re- fined sugar and eliminate the non users such as the infants, the oged and invalids, the consumption is at least one hundred and fifty pounds per person. The same set of figures shows consumption in Germany is 6 poundsp CT person, France 2S, Great Britain 30 pounds.
 What are the facts concerning the effects of excess sugars in the diet and what does such excess mean, in terms of degeneration, to the future of this country?
 | Sugar, as now manufactured, yields onyy heat to the body. It does not l contribute any of the mineral salts, | Vitamines, building or repair ma l terial indispensable to health, on the l contrary it is an irritant and it can not be said too strongly that sugar as | we now use is the most unnecessary 1 1 own sugar from non-Sugar foods and | even though deprived of every form | of commercial sugar, we do obtain
 all the fruit, vegetable and cereal su-
 gars necessary to health and life. | Twenty-Five years old fashioned
 brown sugar was in common use. Such sugar possessed not only the sweet i ness of the cane, but also dts aro-
 matic and nutritive substances, in
 cIuding the mineral salts, no longer | flavor
 shugar Is due to the presence of 'im. purities'' derived from the juice of
 the cane. Today we do not know
 whether our refined sugar is derived from the sugar cane or from the beet , root; all wek now is that it is sweet.
 It has been argued that sugar is
 food and the appetite Tor It was
 merely natures way of expressing f that great need of the organism Tor 2 sugar. The same arguments would Il, 8 the case for alcohol. but no one would |, believe them for they know better
 Whyh Because they see the direct
 relationship of cause and effect be 1 tween the use of alcohol and Its re- v suit. Just because the effects Of sugar I consumption are not imm ediate or SC n related as not to be apparent, tht = mind has not grapsed the truth or the
 situation. Must it be necessary tt
 offer more proof than the lessen1ns k of the alkalinity of the blood, the de e cay of teeth in 96 per cent or ou1 k | children and the rapid increase O
 diabetes.
 Sugar, in the form in which natur If prepares it, is an indispensable artlcl 7, of the diet, because it is soluable ant e it is earily carried by the bloodto tn
 muscle that needs it. With the eH
 ception of honey there Is no concen k trated sugar in nature
 3, Nature provides man with Fer a ment found in saliva This fermen
 converts the starch of potatoes
 wheat, rice, oats, carrots. and othe h starch containing products. into su ' gar. By converting corn stare V through chemical treatment into gIu
 cose and by refining cane and pee
 juice man makes no use of his san livary glands and passes up the assls' ance which nature asks them to ren | der
 So today we consume millions C | tons of sugar. syrups and sweets c all kinds. The result is a breakln | down of theb ody's ability to max \ use of any kind of sugar. under tn | streess the organs of control ar | finally smashed and. insuscept1ole IT ! dividual, disease born of sugar an
 starch abuses are permitted to brea ! through and invade the body.