Evening star., 1925-08-25
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL y. COLLINS.

For one thing, we do not feed our
children enough milk. They must
have good milk and plenty OF IL
There is no substitute for milk. AS
nation. we ought to have our children
consume twice as much milk as they
do"
Z. II. Startling. an English authority
on nutrition. was sent from England
TO Germany in 1919 to investigate Ger
man conditions of nouriShment, and
his report was that because the babies
of that country had been deprived OF
milk during the four years of the
war the coming generation will be
marked with weak and crooked bones.
The American Dental Association,
of effort to stop the decay of teeth
by the use of improved toct powders
had been in vain, for the remedy lay
only in greater supply of lime through
feeding more milk to children. MILK
contains lime which makes bones
strong, and teeth are bones.
Many industrial establishments have
adopted the practice of supplying
bottles of milk free to all workers,
for they find that it so increases eff
cheney that it is profitable expense.
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Mr.. Ford talks of substituting
synthetic milk in place of cows
milk. 1t is true that a synthetic
chemist can take soy beans and pea
nut oil and a few other ingredients
and produce a liquid which will look
like milk. taste like milk. analyze like
milk But il will not be milk, any
more than oleomargine is butter. \
baby fed on Ford synthetic liquid will
get the ricketts, just as surely as if fed
exclusively on any other non-vitamine
food, say the experts of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. His teeth will
decay prematurely and his bones will
break or twist, or he will develop
tuberculosis.
Milk is rich in vitamin A, which is
absolutely essential to ife-giving food.
Oleomargarine and synthetic milk
have none of that element, except 10
the degree that il is mixed with real
butter or real milk. and then. OF
course, not in the full proportion as
the true articles of food.
1t has sometimes been said that the
Chinese do not use milk, and that
their babies are not troubled with its
loss. On the other hand. it is the
custom of Chinese mothers TO breast
feed their babies until they are two
or three years oid-or older. Chinese
get some vitamines by eating leafy
vegetables, and tree leaves and buds.
but they would profit by letting cows
eat the leaves and convert them into
milk, say the experts. Besides, Orient
ais do use milk-the milk of asses
goats, camels and sheep.
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The most outstanding authority in
America, on nutrition. is E. V. McCul-
lum, Phi. D., Sc. D., of Johns Hopkins
University. In a 500-page book. THE
Newer knowledge of Nutrition" pub
lished in 1922, DIR. McCullum says
page 433):
'The system of diet which can be
confidently recommended with assui
ances that it will go a long way To-
ward improving the physician fitness
of the Nation, is very simple
1.-THE first and most important prin.
ciple is the extension OF the use of
dairy products. Instead of the pres
ent consumption of half a pint OF
milk day there should be at least
a quart per capita. Somewhat more
than this would probably be nearer
the optimum."
DIR. McCullum adds leafy vegetables
to the desirable diet, and then he re
turns to milk:
Milk also serves, through its en-
coura agement of the growth OF Tactic
acid producing organisms (which cause
souring of milk to bring about the
disappearance from the intestine of
those types of bacteria causing put
refactive decomposition sof the food
residues with the production of sub
stances which are a physiological
abomination. This principle, first
enunciated by Metchnikoff, is found by
meteorological studies to be sound
Milk has, however. dietary properties
which the famous bacteriologist did
not discern, and which make ii the
one food for which there is no effec
tive substitute"
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