The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-21
SO BRAN Is NOT DANGEROUS

so BRAN IS NOT DANGEROUS
II Is sad but true that the day
so by pronouncing Is so is past,
although when a doctor could make
thing some Of the big shots In the
profession still try to work the old
racket on the public,
For example, the propaganda OF
the American Medical Association
only three or four years ago brand
Ing injection treatment Of hernia
dangerous procedure wretched
stuff obviously composed by facile
writer who had no idea what the
modern treatment Of hernia Is. The
course Of events In the past two or
three years has compelled the ON
niScient oracle of the A. M, A. TO
revise that attitude, and now the
dangerous procedure is perforce
recognized as q proper and efficient
method OF treatment hernia In suit
able eases, The great minds Of the
medical politicians who make most
OF the noise ought TO realize by
now that you can't make thing so
by pronouncing II so. This Is 1910,
not 1910.
Since the use OF wheat bran Us
q laxative food came into popularity
the old timers who still yearn to-
pronounce the verdict OF medical
science upon everything issued va
rious warnings to the public about
the hypothetical dangers Of eating
bran. could name names, have
done so, but II scarcely seems ne.
ceSsary now, One Of the hypothe-
tical dangers some of the eminent
specialists ventured TO ascrbe TO the
practice Of eating bran Is obstruc-
ton OF the intestine by bran I'M
FACTION, In review OF the entire
medical literature OF the world Drs
George Kopstein and Bernard Fam
tus were able to find four actual
cases OF the kind, In three of these
cases the impaetion was preceded by
pathological conditions which were
primarily responsible for the OBJ
struct!on, such as structure, adhes.
Ions from former surgical oper-
alton, and perforating amebic ulcer.
In one case the history failed 10
make clear the nature OF the prim-
ary trouble, although the patient
had had two previous operations.
These investigators concluded that
the eating OF bran Is not likely 10
cause intentinNl obstruction,
Well, who ever seriously imagined
II Would2
Only the old timers who still like
TO pronounce things thus and so,
II you like bran, or the effects of
II, cot II whenever you wish
Some OF the old timers conceiv.
cd an arbitrary notion that bran Is
"indigostible, The Home Econom.
les bureau OF the U, 8, Department
Of Agriculture found that normal
individuals digest nearly half OF the
protein and more than half OF the
carbohydrate In bran.
Wheat bran contains protein OF
high biologic value TO supplement
the inferior protein In the white
kernel Of the wheat, according To
Hlndhede, who found that bran Is
dieested as thoroughly by man us
by animals,
Bran Is second only TO pure wheat
germ as q rich NATURAL food source
OF the vitamln B. complex which
our modern refined diet nearly al
ways lacks,
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
XeFOsls
! am a girl 10 years old. My skin
seems very dry, do not think II
should be so dry, Is II something
lacking IN my diet &C. H.
Ans.-Usually II Is lack OF sulA-
Client natural vitamin A In the diet.
For two or three months take $4,000
units OF natural vitamin A daily (two
capsules, each containing $4,000
unitS 10 supplement your diet:
Food richest In vitamin A: Milk,
cream butter, egg yolk, carrots,
spinach, chicory or escarole or other
green's, liver, cheese (every kind
squash, sweet potato, tomato, toma-
TO juice, banana, string beans. dried
peaches, dried pruneS, Avoid soap
and Water-clean skin rather with
freshly made Cold Cream or with
oil or almond oil or the Skin OH