The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-18
CARBOHYDRATES ARE EASY TO EAT

Thanks ot the delectable carbo- hydrates the indefinite border be- tween overweight and obesity grows ever broader. The carbohy- drates are so easy to eat, and eat ing is such social pleasure and we hate to acknowledge that the first thirty pounds of stacker f1esl IS actual obesity, especially when it is on our own bones or those of our friends.
 | It is, or course, on carbohydrates that people grow fat. Cake, pastry, bread, toats, cereals, crackers, bis cult, sugar, syrup, ice cream, candy, sweet buildings and sauces, sweetened beverages-it is easy enough to consume a few hundred calories in these tempting viands even when one is not at all hun gry. Besides, carbohydrate foods are the cheapest and the most plentiful. Nothing cheaper than corn pone and 'lasses for the poor ignorant whites and Negroes of the south. White bread, potatoes and sweets are the cheapest staples everywhere. If that were not enough, the food manipulators apply their hocus-pocus to this and that crude starch or sugar and market it to the ignorant Ameri- can public in a dainty package at an astonishing price. Yet after all the hocus-pocus has been said and done it is still just carbohydrate.
 IT you've ever been hungry or famished or tired and weak for want of food, you know as we'll as l do that nothing so quickly puts you back in the running or restores your well being or banishes the depression or fatigue or panic, as little sugar in any form. That is because sugar is quickly absorbed and immediately utilized by the body to provide energy. And that IS why young persons who play or work hard need and should have plenty of sugar or sweets.
 But while carbohydrate serves Ideally as emergency ration it does not and cannot satisfy the call of the body cells for nourishment The cells require minerals and wit. amins to do their work. The tis- | sues, composed of cells, cannot carry on their metabolism without the necessary mineral clements and vitamins. The individual cannot enjoy optimum health without an adequate daily supply of these &C., cessory factors as we'll as the fuel materials.
 | You take prodigious breakfast or toast, cereal, rolls, or cakes of one sort or another chiefly, with sugar or syrup, as the Substantial part of the meal. A few hours later you begin to crave more food You're not actually hungry, of course, but you feel let down, weary, bit Jagged and so you in- dulge in bit of beverage of one kind or another, which provides just the pickup you crave, sugar
 Now suppose you were sentenced l to an institution where we provide only wholesome, healthful food Your breakfast would include these NATURAL items: CD Any fresh fruit in season; CD one or two eggs cooked as you prefer; (3) pure fresh RAW milk. or cream or butter. A roll or slice of toast l or a dish of any UNDENATUR- FEED cereal, such as plain wheat, cooked as you prefer. And tea, coffee or cocoa if you like. That $ just a specimen breakfast. If ev- | erybody could have such food in stead of the sorry mess of dead stuff that constitutes the usual breakfast overweight among hu- man beings would become as rare as it is among undomesticated ami. malS.