The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-03
CORRECTIVE PROTECTIVE DIET

N0t1On0H NeWNpmpee SefvuCev 5SO
 or care of Waterbury DemOcrat.D CORRECTIVE PROTECTIVE DIET 1
 According to news reports there were 5000 cases of scurvy among | lumberjacks and farmers in Arros- took County in Northern Maine re- cently-thousands of residents were unemployed and unable to buy any fresh fruit. Not only fresh fruit but commercial canned tomato or to- mato juice would protect against scurvy, if each individual could have only two ounces day.
 Protective" foods are foods which contain considerable of the elements which modern refined, preserved, store food generally lacks namely, vitamins and minerals. Impairment of health or definite deficiency dis eases such as scurvy, rickets, beri- beri (multiple neuritis), pellagra, oc- cur when the regular diet fails to provide adequate proportions of these elements. While commercially canned tomato or tomato juice re- tains most of the vitalnin c in the fresh tomato (vacuum process), to- mato or tomato juice canned by the usual method at home contains on- ly part of the original vitamin c, for considerable is lost in boiling and on standing in the can. Wheat is rich in viitamins B and G (vita- min B complex), which are concen- trated chiefly in the bran or outer coat of the kernel and in the germ or heart from which the Sprout grows. In refining flour nearly all of the barn and germ are discarded, and the fine white flour that people have been trained to prefer contains practically no vitamins at all. Vitamins and minerals are not only protective, but may have cor rective value if restored to the diet even after health has become im- paired or deficiency disease has de- veloped from prolonged or habitual deficient intake of vitamins, cal- cium, phosphorus iron or other ele- ments naturally present in food but so commonly removed or de- stroyed by refining or preserving or cooking.
 The Corrective Protective Diet which will be published tomorrow is offered as model or base diet on which to design your own. As outlined it is a bare maintenance diet for sedentary adult, that is, it yields 2,200 calories day, which would be barely sufficient to satisfy the minimum energy requirements of an adult doing no work or exer- else. The diet would of course be a reduction diet for an adult who does moderate physical work or takes some exercise daily. It is an alkaline ash diet, tending to pre- vent acidosis-which is incidental and of no practical importance, in my opinion. Finally, it includes a preponderance of foods having high vitamin and high mineral values and 8 fair proportion of roughage, bulk or indigestible fibre (cellulose). /.
 It may be the concern of the physician in some illnesses to pre- scribe a diet or foods which will leave alkaline by-products or end- products in metabolism. This point need never concern layman in his choice of food or diet. When aci dosis does occur it is proabbly nev- CT due to diet, but is rather a feat ure of altered or disturbed meta bolism associated with serious ill., ness. Most of the i'll effects that have been aScribed to the prepon- derance of acid-ash items in the diet are more likely due to the low mineral content and the low vita min content of such foods as white breadfi cakes, sugar, molasses, corn meal, polished rice, candy, lean meats, pork, potatoes, tea, coffee, pie, cocoa, prepared breakfast cer- calls and hot cakes.
 QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Good Plan
 My wife has sweats at night and am at loss what to do. Hav, tried several suggestions but did no good. (H. w. S.)
 Answer-When you run out of suggestions, it might be worth while, that is if she is good wife, to have physician examine her, that is, if you haven't run out of wife by that time.
 Pituitrin
 Please recommend doctor who always uses pituitrin in childbirth. understand some doctors do not use it. (Mrs. F. W.)
 Answer-I would not recommend a doctor who always uses pituitrin or one who never uses 1t That is best left to your doctors judgment.
 Foot Itch
 wonder if you will be so kind as to reprint the formulas you gave about year ago for foot itch. I had a druggist prepare some of the powder and liquid and they proved