The New York herald., 1922-04-16
RETAIL PRICES OF ADDITIONAL AsrIc ]

| Coffee, pound. ........................ 3v.1
Bananas, Dozen. .............-.......- 4l.S
| oranges, dozen. fv.o
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pace Of life and work as these things
are measured now. The work which
| one man is able to do these days by
means of the energy afforded him by
richly varied diet could only be ac-
complished by three or four men.
Prof. Chaddock Compares
Our Diet With Eastern Food
1.-THE consideration is, of course,
complicated by physiology and cli-
mate. 1 do not doubt that men could
keep alive on fish and rice and water,
but at the same time they would be-
come smaller, weaker, less competent
individuals. Such a diet could not but
work evil to the Anglo-Saxon race.
But in spite of all our weighing
Of calories, &C., we really know very
little about the so-called ideal ra-
tion.' 1t should be studied very care
fully and experiments made to avoid
the weakening Of people by an i'm
proper diet
" have heard that the Rockefeller
Institute is studying this question, but
I do not know this positively and at
any rate there have been no con-
clusions given out as the results Of
this work of investigation, If they
are making one.
until we know all the effects Of a
meat diet 1t would be rash to discard
it, and this much is certainly true
that we couldn't hope to go on as we
have been going should we accept all
at once all the vagaries Of advocates
OF a simplification of diet.
ut must not be forgotten that we
have already tried to simplify what
we put on our tables. The war COM
PEELED it and IL there were bad ef-
fects they could not have been so gen.
eral else we should have heard of
them. In our efforts to assist Hoover
in his large order of feeding Europe
we cut down immensely. We saved
our grains not for ourselves but for
humanity and when it became neces-
sary to limit our indulgence in food
animals we found surprising condi-
ton. 1t was that the supplies of
these had been gradually diminish
ing. Before the war was ended we
were exporting food animals from
South America.
AT the same time statisticians be-
gan to warn us that for twenty years
our cereals had been gradually lessen
ing. We export less and less of these
for the simple reason that we need
more for our home consumption. These
are pregnant signs and IL they bring
forth caution they have not been in
vain.
United States Lowest
i In Consumption of Cereals
The production of, food animals is
back to normal, taking 1913 as basis.
and our cereal production Is above
normal Judged by the same average,
but still in neither are we keeping up
to the increase in population. so that
these figures tell something we ought
to heed. / should say ia an offhand
way that II would be advisable to get
on a more economic diet, and that Is
one where cereals figure largely"
Prof. Chaddock said that the United
States has the lowest consumption of
cereals of the leading nations, Great
tOAiCc hCAl anu Japan Hos AhC
highest.
You must see the economists" said
the professor, III you touch on the
\ question Of international competition as
based on the table. Probably 1t Is true
that peoples who have been accus-
toned all their lives to waste nothing,
as the French have a reputation for
doing, will find 1t easier to pay their
debts than a nation which insists on
having foodstuff of high price and
quality and declines to retrench on its
table. i think, however, that we in
America are learning to eat cereals as
we never did before the war, and as Is
well known diet In which cereals
have large part Is the most economic
one. In other words. / believe that
what is happening here In matters OK
food is what usually happens In Amer
lea in all things, a change which Is
gradual, almost imperceptible, but
none the less sure"
A straw which would seem to indi-
cate the way we are going toward the
elimination of expensive foods for all
occasions is the modern breakfast Of
American families. Most of us can
| itIol WHeI1 Iltdt vi cB6S VI bOth
formed an indispensable part of that
early morning meal. 1t is rare to hnd
these hearty foods on any breakfast
table to-day. Breakfast has been sim
plIfied and cheapened In cost by the
exclusion OF meat and the substitution
Of cereals and fruits. Almost every
family whether any Of It's members
has visited Europe or not has come
gradually to adopt what used to be
called the European breakfast"
What has caused this widely adopted
dietary change? The causes are not
solely physiological nor economic. AL
though It came about slowly and
quietly. without beat OF drum or ad-
vertisement In tie newspaper In the
field of popular nutrition tho new way
OF serving breakfast eliminating meat