The Washington times., 1922-08-01

HedlLIl duLllOIlLy, "di lCu w
dulging in a death-dealing Z"
Not even the deadly white
plague" is cutting down life at
higher rate than organic diseases
caused by excessive sugar consump'
ton, according to DR.. Wiley.
we have become nation OF
diabetes" said the noted expert.
The American people consume
In one way or another, directly or
indirectly, about 100 pounds OF
sugar per person: each year.
Fifty years ago sugar COnsump-
ton was not half so great. The
rate is still mounting.
Disease Increasing.
"A celebrated Boston physician
has said in a published statement
that diabetes is increasing among
American people at the same rate
as sugar consumption.
This seems entirely reasonable
in view of the fact that exCretion
of sugar through the kidneys ,ts
the most prominent symptom of the
disease. *
Tuberculosis of the lungs held
the hegemony for killing more pto-
ple than any other disease for
many years.
"Fortunately the rate Of death
due to tuberculosis has been greatly
lowered in the past twenty-five
years and is still falling.
"On the other hand. our hearts
are giving away more rapidly and
fatally and our kidneys are falling
into the same degeneratiVe race OF
supremacy as a cause Of death.
THE span of life in America is
growing through the conquest OF
contagious disease, and great old age
would be a common thing II liver
and heart diseases, caused by eX'
cessive sugar consumption, did not
cut down life
Don't Ruin Children.
Children should never be given
candies or other sweets, according to
DR.. Wiley. His own have never been
permitted candy.
THE effects Of excessive sugar
consumption are more injurious in
many ways than those of alcohol"
he declared.
Il should rather give my child
glass OF wine than a piece OF candy.
We eat sugar on everything ex-
cept meat and honey" DR.. Wiley
continued.
I'VE put 1t on our. breakfast foods.
We mix 1t in the dough with which
we make our bread. We put 1t on
the fruit we eat
I'VE eat vast quantities of ice
cream and sweeten our desserts.
We dote on candy and other Confec.
tions. We serve all kinds of pre-
serves at breakfast.
''Tha panppr nntS into
corn, and so on in an almost end
less riot of saccharine consumption. :"
DIR. Wiley warned against soft
drinks in hot weather.
The evils of soft drinks,', he
said, ARE intensified by quantities
of sugar therein.
The sugar these drinks contain
is quickly burned and added to the
oppressiveness of the heat. If II
isn't burned. 1t is converted into
fat and lines the stomach with an
added heat restraining blanket"
Sugar should be eliminated from
ihe diet entire. Y, DR.. Wiley advised.
We get enough in natural
way from the milk we drink and
the vegetables and fruits we eat
he said Children get all the,
need from milk.
Il have come 10 the conclusion
| that the human animal could do
more work. have less fat. increase
his vitality and .engthen his life II
there were no concentrated sugar.
The speed in which America is
living and the wear and tear or
the nerves by demands of modern
life stimulate an abnormal desir"
for sweets, In the opinion Of DR..
Wiley.
The famous expert, now 7S yeas
old looks as young as a man Of 80
and is more robust than most mer
OF that age.
He attributes his splendid health
| and vigor in a large part TO his diet
81 eat little starch or sugar" he
/ said today. 81 live now chiefly on
! fruits and leaf vegetables. never
eat meat more than once or twice a