The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-22
OUR NATIONAL NAMBY-
 PAMBY DIET

PAMBY DIET
 Trying to tell how the human ma chinery works in the rigidly limited space available here daily is like explaining to your second wife via long distance why you will be sev- eral days late in returning home.
 Due to modern refinements our national diet, according to good nutrition authorities, commonly pro- vides insufficient calcium and vita- min D, insufficient vitamin B-com- plex and iron. and perhaps in many instances there are shortages of other mineral clements and of other essential vitamins, but these mem toned are the important ones.
 The vitamins are functionally re- lated with the hormones or internal secretions in the body-such as thyroid, adrenin, estrogen and testo- sterone. Constant moderate defici- encies in intake of the essential vi- tamins probably (this Is merely the notion of or Doc Brady, remember account for functional weakness or irregularity of the ductless glands in many cases.
 At first thought 1t may seen a far cry from white bread and "puri- fled" for partly digested cereal pap to infantile anorexia nervosa, intes. tinal indigestion, celiac disease, malnutrition, or juvenile anemia or hypochromic anemia in adults, chronic fatigue and spinal curva- ture-it may seem so to you. It doesn't seem so to me. But then, I am & bit hypped about vitamins, am I not9
 It seems futile to talk about re- storation of life to ghost, whether by requiring the use of reasonable proportion of entire wheat for the making of bread or by requiring the addition of e reasonable part of the vitamin B-complex which has been removed in the refining of flour, also nutrition authorities are considering both of these prophy- tactic measures.
 It Is not unreasonable and not impracticable to procure and keep on hand a supply of plain wheat and use 1t in the daily dietary, if you control the food supply in your own home have Q monograph Wheat to Eat" which gives iristruc- tions for the use of wheat--send stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress and ask for It.
 If you cannot control the food supply or preparation of food, then you can at any rate keep on hand Q few pounds of wheat germ, and eat several tablespoonfuls of 1t daily, to increase your intake of vitamin B. complex which Is sadly deficient in the usual nariby .pamby diet.
 If you will not or cannot effect either of the adjustments men, toned, then at least you can lay in a supply of vitamin B.coinplex tab- lets and furtively chew or swallow three to six of them every day - each tablet contains i50 interna- tional units of Bl (thiamin) so three to six probably give enough B to keep Q normal person in fair functional health. One who gets  enough vitamin B.complex daily will rarely have any iron shortage, for B.complex controls the assinii- lation of Iron.
 The other important deficiency of our rianby- -pamby diet Is calcium and phosphorus, the assimilation, utilization and retention of which Fis controlled by vitamin D. Egg yolk, milk, cream, butter, oysters, fresh or canned salmon, sardines are vir- tually the only foods containing size nificant amounts of vitaniin D. MIX cheese, greenA peas, beans, nuts are the best food sources of calcium. Various meats and fish are good food sources of phosphorus. Wheat is . good source of uhorphorus. but All