The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-30
POOR TEETH, YET GOOD ENOUGH FOR MAKE BE-
 LIEVE En0n

POOR TEETH, YET GOOD
 ENOUGH FOR MAKE BE-
 LTEVE FOOD
 In England one of the most noted authorities on nutrition is Prof Drummond. Recently Prof. Drum mond and A. Wilbraham released for publication their book, "The Englishman's Diet" which is a his- tory of five centuries of English diet. The authors offer some interes- ting and instructive observations which we shall quote now and again. They attribute the appalling prev alance of dental carries in England to the poorness of white bread in minerals, the reduction in the con- sumption of milk (with the increas- ing use of the cheaper forms of con- densed milk) and the decline of breast feeding.
 But the picture of the young peo- pie in England with their bad teeth, which this may cause one to see in his minds eye, is frightened some what by the comment of London correspondent of the Jour. AdA who said in November that "the good physique of the many thou sands of young men called up when this country had recently to adopt conscription" is a fair index of the great improvement in health in re- cent years and this improvement is further reflected in 8 lower death rate, lower maternal mortality and lower tuberculosis mortality in England. This is cheering news. From occasional glimpses of Eng fish teeth had become rather des- pondent about the future suprem- acy of civilized man.
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 But listen to the minister of Service Congress in England last year. "Begorrah," says he, or may be it was "Cheerio" or whatever sound they emit over there to get attention, "the teeth of this coun- try are bad; you might almost say they are rotten Well, now, I was on the verge of saying just that, but couldn't get up my nerve. You have no idea how guarded have to be about the words use here.
 Why is dental carries (decay Of teeth) so prevalent in civilized countries while it is absent in peo- ple living under primitive condi- tions? Recent studies in nutrition seem to furnish an answer. About 184O stone grinders for wheat gave place to steel rollers which remove the whole of the germ and most of the bran giving a refined white flour deficient in protein, fat, vita mins A, B-complex and E and the important minerals calcium, phos- phorus and iron.
 Perhaps such poor teeth are good enough for the mastication of the make-believe food civilized people try to live on, if it really requires mastication. According to Norman Jolliffs and Prof. Geo. R. Cowgirl 55 per cent of the calories in our modern diet in America are sup piled by refined white sugar and re- fined white flour-and a century ago virtually the same proportion of calories were supplied in the form of wheat ground in the old stone mill, while wheat flour, plus a little brown sugar, but with a vital diff ference, aside from the minerals. The wheat from the stone mill gave 600 international units of viatmin B daily; the wheat and sugar used to- day give scarcely 50 international units of vitamin B. Of course the vitamin B was in the form of B complex (includipg B, or thiamin, B2 or G or ribofavin, nicotinic acid and the other entities that naturally grow in the B complex). Therefore when we think of restoring wheat flour to its dominant place in the diet of man we must consider all of the entities which are lacking in white flour and not merely thiamin or any other single vitamin.
 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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 My doctor finds nothing wrong with me and says he thinks I'm just naturally frail, but at forty-eight a man ought not to become so feeble he can't run half a block without getting Jagged out and puffed and have pounding heart for half an hour afterward .:. (S. 2. O.
 Ars.-f your doctor could find no explanation for your weakness when he examined you, certainly I can't divine what it may be via long dis-