Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-01-06
THEOR|ES0NFOOD
|. HABITS D|SPROvED
Women Scientists Show
That Combinations, If Pure,
Do Not Harm.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERKELEY, Calf, January SIN
a research department, stated ex-
clusively by women, new facts per-
tanning to diet and nutrition, some
Of which contradict long standing
theories. are being disclosed.
approximately thousand rats and
other animals are fed daily in the
tests of various foods which are being
conducted.
DR.. Agnes Fay Morgan, in co-opera-
ton with Prof. Ruth Okey and a
number of other teachers of the Uni
versity of California, has raised and
cared for nearly 10000 rodents for
this purpose in recent years.
Theories Exploded.
The feminine scientists have al
ready found that white bread has con-
siderable more vitamin B in it than
was thought, that toast is less nutri-
tious and no more easily digested than
untoasted bread, that acidosis Is not
to be feared to the extent food fad
dists claim, in fact. that there is no
scientific excessive alkalinity and there
is no foundation for believing porteins
when eaten together.
No foods which are harmless sepa-
rately are dangerous if eaten together,
DR.. Morgan claims, and this goes for
such combinations as cherries and
milk and fish and milk.
AS for white flour, DR.. Morgan and
her associates report, there Is no
doubt that it lacks certain food fac
tors as result of the milling process
but in the ordinary diet these factors
are supplied by other foods. Unless
one lives on bread alone it doesn't
make much difference what color it is
Crusts Less Nutritious.
John Jones, jr., who may have
suspected eating bread crusts couldn't
give him rosy cheeks and curly hair
has the moral support of the univer-
sity experimenters. They report that
heat tends to destroy the protein
in the bread. Consequently crusts
are less nutritious and no easier to
digest than the center of the loaf,
Among other conclusions: An alb
normal craving for candy on the part
Of a child may be symptomatic of
undernourishment; apricots are one
Of the best sources of vitamin A and
a good source Of vitamin C.; cooking
this fruit decreases the vitamin c con-
tent from 80 to so per cent, but 1t
increases the , availability of the
vitamin A content.
Reduction of 20 per cent in the daily
ration of vitamin B brings rat to the
verge Of death from paralysis In a
very few weeks.
Many Foods Essential.
Growing children usually are benefit
ed If their diet is supplemented by an
extra source of vitamin 3, which is
relatively abundant in whole wheat
and other Impressed grains, yeast,
beans, citrus fruits and the like and
for all there should be liberal supply
OF milk and dairy products and of
green-leaved vegetables, but the way
to determine what is required in the
nature of special diet is to consult
competent physician.
Dogs and other animals are used in
the laboratory food tests. Rats are
especially valuable in determining food
facts because the amount of vitamin
present in a given portion Of food is
SO small and so difficult to separate
from other substances it Is imprac-
ticable to try to extract it and weigh
It. Instead the rats are given
synthetic diet to test the effect Of the
particular Ntamin under investigation.