The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
THE GERMANS AND THE sWEDEs LIKE
 ALCMINCM AND INSULIN

The federal bureau of health in Germany has recently made a thorough inquiry into the ef- cooking and serving food The German health | authorities investigated the question some s5 years ago and arrived at the opinion that house. hold and kitchen vessels of aluminium were per-
 fectly safe. Recently. it seems. the anti-alumin- um propaganda has made some stir in Germany
 and so the federal health bureau instituted this
 new inquiry. The propagandists-in this country dentists posing as doctors. quacks eager for any personal publicity they get, and plain hire-
 small particles of aluminium become disintegrat- cd and are ngested with in the food, and that
 aluminium is dissolved in the juices of some
 fruits or vegetables, and they just divine that all this aluminium in the system causes whatever you fear you're going to have. When an obscure
 dentist points out to the sullible public just how this aluminum causes cancer and I don't know what all signing his name always as "Dr John Doe" depend on it the wiseacre layman will swallow the eminent "doctor's' advice with never | a suspicion about his reputabty or authority. The German health authorities carried out many experiments on animals and men, feed ing them, over months, rather larger doses of | aluminium than could ever be accidentally ingest- containers. and found that even after year of this. there was no more than the normal trace of aluminium to be found in the blood, in the tissues of such animals or men. We all have a trace of aluminium. copper, etc. in our blod. So the Germans conclude that there is no ob-
 jection from the health point of view, against
 the of aluminium ware.
 Now in Sweden they handle these little prob
 ems in a scientific fashion. too. Many of our skinny. frail, undernourished readers have been
 all het up by the suggestion published here from
 time to time, that a of insulin treatment
 is fine to help extremely underweight indiv- dual lay little flesh, matter if there is no tendency toward diabetes at all Quite q few of the poor skinny wights have even mustered cour- age to go and ask their physicians what about this insuln treatment, and regret to learn that quite few of the doctors approached have betrayed their ineptitude and general incapacity by laughing the idea away. even telling the patient insun is never given except for diabetes. and here and there some ham healer has assured
 the patient that insulin would be dangerous if
 pr Jacobsen reported in Ugeskrift for Laeger, Sept 1, 1880, the very favorable results he has | obtained from the treatment of undernourished patients with small doses of insulin and extra meals. He physicians that the method is
 well adapted for use in private practice.
 Skinny persons who yearn to get started on the road to plumpness this way should understand
 that insuln is not available except as prescribed doctor teach any intelligent patient how to
 '''N~ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS It Is Never too Hard to Drink am g years old and all my life have drunk
 water that comes through n bed of lime rock What effect does lime in water have on the hu- man system when person gets to my agc? How can it be dissolved? CMrs B. WI
 Answer-As long it tastes good enough wa | ter is never too hard to drink It is not known whether the body utilizes any of the calcium | such foods milk, peas. cabbage. lettuce. car
 rots. oatmeal etc. In any case, there is no sound | reason to imagine that anybody anywhere in the country gets more lime than is good for him: on the contrary, many of us suffer from deficiency | of that very element.
 Time the Great Healer
 What can one do for blushng. as in my case | on little prOvOcatiOn? Miss A. S)
 the accomp p1ishment. Sooner or later you are re bound to grow older and harder.
 First Aid
 have been a Red Cross first aid teacher fol several years and think ,our attack on the pol | icy of the Red Cross in placing the subjects arm | under the head is praiseworthy. Likewise be. i leve that in a few more years we'll see that | fancy pictorial eliminated-such al I oI< frA1n vnxt
 paign undoubtedly caused the Red Cross to omit | from the Instruction manual that time-wastine | maneuver which you call the ''jack-knife stunt. Keep up the agitation. It is having more effect
 than realize. st i.gs