The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-11-29
WHAT DO YOU EAT roRq
Don't Let the Food Faddists Get You
Use Common Sense and Be
Happy.
Happy.


should be based on scientific trutl
said Miss Leila w. Hunt, head of t
department of foods and nutrition
the State College of Washington, tai
inc over radio broadeaster X F A
recently.
The science of feeding cows al
pigs has become satisfactorily exae
but not the science of feeding ma
There have sprung up cults an
schools of food fallacies, supported b
the lack of scientific knowledge.
Many prevalent ideas as to diet al
based partly on tradition with no SC
entific basis whatever; partly 0
vague theories, illogical and inconsis
ent, and, to a limited extent, on soil
facts and experiments.
Unfortunately many of our commo
notions as to foods are largely niflu
enced by the immense volume of ad
yertising matter published purely t
make money.
For example, few years ago on,
of our leading magazines carried al
advertisement by wellknown food
faker, which read Meat forms uri,
acid, which excites the kidneys. They
get sluggish and fail to filter, tho
waste and poisons from the blood;
then we get sick. = We know that
meat, eaten in moderation and com.
bined with other foods in a well bal
onced diet, will do no harm to any
normal individual.
Another advertisement tells the
reader that hardening of the arteries
is caused by deposit of starch crys-
tails on the mucous serfaces of the ar
teries. But starch never has any
crystals, nor do arteries have mucous
membranes. Besides, we know that
hardening of the arteries come from
other causes.
We find the public knitting its
brows over various diet theories.
Among these might be mentioned veg
eterian, raw food diet, nut diet, fruit
diet, sourmilk diet, vitamin food tab
lets, and the like. All of these the
ories are built around grain Of
truth, but we find that eventually
they do not contribute the best TO hui
Vegetarianism has some splendid
-hings in its doctrine. There are prob
IDLY few strict vegetarians. In real
ty, those who pose as such eat ami
nal foods such as milk, cheese, and
'uttcr; otherwise they could not stay
veil. The evil effects of eating too
nuch meat are found among those of
edentery occupations. No wonder,
hen, that this type of individual who
as habitually eaten too much meat
J benefited by vegetarian diet.
We also have with us no-break
lst fad, not uncommon among young t
cople, especially girls. We know that
le body needs food in the>morning to
raw ON for energy used in the day.
stivities. We do not believe that it
best for anyone in normal health,
airing normal work, to go without
-eakfast. 1t nearly always means
iat larger amount of food will be /
4ten at luncheon and dinner. r
A few months ngo a magazine came
my desk in which l found am artic-
G headed How Milk Affects Amer
J., saying, .sMilk uniformly causes
70 definite conditions within the hui
an being-lowered mentality and
ogged condition of the system. Ma
Ire designs milk for the nourishment
{ baby cows. A baby's intelligence
never high at the best A full {
rown cow has scarcely a degree of
ltelhgence and intelligent capacity
, be coveted by normal human be-
lg. Is is to be wondered at, then,
nat tho spread milk habit of
moricans has reduced the mentality
f 709o of American adults to that of
boy of 10 yearsa"
How absurd, in this day and age,
hen our best nutrition experts tell us
hat milk is such an important foodl
makes for vigor and growth in the
oung, and is also splendid for the
dult. And so the comedy of errors
oes.
We find food company manufac-
uring a vitaminized fruit wafer
'hese fruit waters, 80 by count, sell
t 50 a box, 3 for SIS, 8 for $40. We
earn from our best nutrition experts
hat aging, drying, etc, destroy Ger
ain of the yitamins. How, then, IS
possible for this. material, even If
he vitamins had all been preserved
the preparation of the product, for
hem still to exist when this tablet +
transported all over the country,
md, in all probability, lies on the
lrugstore shelf for months and
Months?
The Connecticut Experiment Sta
aon recently published report show
ng results of analysis of q vitamin