The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-09-05
MRS. SCHUYLER
S A Y S
(By JOSEPHINE SCHUYLER)
Calvin Seryice)
Starvation Through Ignorance

very prominent person does not
die. The amazing thing about this
is that so many are just middle
aged or younger. They have reach
ed the top of their profession and
have everything to live for. yet
they make their exit The loss of
prominent middle-aged folk is par
ticularly hard on an impoverished
minority group. For it has taken
such tremendous sacrifice and
struggle for them to reach the top
and it's all over in a day. This
represents, among other things,
great economic waste.
Food Faddism Paved Way to
/ BiOchemistry
Not so long ago anyone who did
not eat the traditional meat-bread-
and-potatoes diet of the average
Americana was promptly labeled a
food faddist' and dismissed as
slightly off. But science which
had investigated every other angle
Of human life, could not continue
to ignore the very obvious connec-
ton between diet and disease.
Long after the libeled food faddists
/ had discovered that whole grains
and raw salads gave one a pro-
nounced feeling of health, the food
chemists came along and by eX-
tensive animal experimentation
proved that prolonged storage, re-
finement or heating changed the
chemistry of food and modiffier or
entirely destroyed its value to the
human body. Food that has been
thus processed cannot support the
body in health. Sherman of Co.
lumbia called a diet of correctly
proportional, vitalized food, a pro
tective' diet because a properly
nourished body is the best pro-
lection against disease.
Many Schools of Diet
The food faddists tried many diff
ferent kinds of diet They went all
the way from the MacFadden delft
cation of whole wheat, (Which at
one time was believed to cure az
ills), to the milk Slippers, spinach
bugs, Hollywood lamb-chop-pine-
applers to the present-day health
cocktail addicts. Each cult, posi-
tive of its own superiority, scream
ed abuse at the others. The We
getarians, dragging in ethics to
support their theory, saw a direct
connection between meatless menus
and spirituality. While the naugh-
ty meat-eaters were profoundly
contemptuous of the moral vegeta-
tors. The average citizen, seeing so
much contradiction, stuck to his
meat-bread-and potatoes though
perhaps not with a profit. For al
though these cults have all been
wrong in specific ideas, in general
they were travelling in the right
direction. They were, at least, on
the scent of a momentous discov-
cry. Every scientific authority
now gives biochemistry credit for
making greater strides in practical
knowledge during the last thirty
years than any other branch of
science. And everything points to
the direct connection of diet to
health or disease.
The Good Vegetarians
A religion was made of diet.
Seventh Day Adventists were a
mong the f1rst here to supplant
meat with nuts and milk with plant
| juices.) These good brethren de-
clared the bad old meat maulers
would die of acidosis, and not go
| to heaven either, because God new
er meant us to eat our brother
animals. | once talked to a right
eous leader of a meatless flock in
Los Angeles, who became indig-
nant when l pointed out that
Hindu scientist had discovered
plants also feel pain and hence
that the tender-hearted garden adj
diets were undoubtedly causing
much sorrow in the Vegetable
Kingdom.
Most people who call themselves
vegetarians are not that at all.
They may not eat meat but they
drink milk, eat butter, cheese and
eggs and these are all animal pro-
ducts. 1t may be that the meat
eaters won't reach heaven but the
plant-lovers were wrong about
meat causing acidosis. Vilhjalmur
Stefansson, the famed explorer,
went on a years diet of meat, UNI
relieved by a single nut or lettuce
leaf, and survived in excellent
health. A friend who accompanied
him on this carnal adventure and
already suffering from acidosis,
alas! for the vegetarians, was cur
ed by the all-meat diet. Consum-
er's Research went thoroughly in
to the matter of meat and acidosis
and found no connection.
Anyway, said the vegetable-lov-
ers, the meat-eaters were blood
thirsty, brutal and not at all nice
people. But they overlooked the
fact Of Adolph Hitler, pronounc-
ed and fervent vegetarian!
Eskimos are probably the only
group Of people who live by meat
alone. Those that stick to this diet,
according to Stefansson who lived
among them, do not suffer from
dental ills or lung trouble. They
are extraordinarily healthy but do