The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-28
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 When Q correspondent tells me I said something ! am reasonably sure ! did not say, ! no longer at. tempt Go make & categorical denial, fl you have an article entitled "Con- genial Flat Feet" is is really too childish to try to persuade your cor. respondents you meant congenltAl.
 But when they twist me with in- consisteneies or Absurdlties an my own monographs or booklets, that's 6 serious matter.
 For example, Mrs. c. e. comes tripping up with the following OK. traordinary statement:
 "f followed the regimen given
 In your booklet Rules for Reduc.
 ing (Design for Dwlndllng) and found that my hunger was satis. fled with considerably less food
 than I had always needed before
 and my weight was reduced from
 i6S to t40 pounds. l am five feet
 four inches tall"
 At this point in Mrs. Q's letter l figuratively patted myself on the back. While plump girls, as already intimated, are usually good natured and lovable enough, if you can show 'em how to regain 6 youthful figure without severe self.deniai or impairment of good health and good looks, you've got 'ena practi- cally indentured.
 So Mrs. d's next remark changed everything.
 "But I developed arthritis. In my feet" she observes, land wrote for your booklet Tine His Called Rheumatism You list rice polish.
 ings as one of the causes of arthri-
 tis. Rice polishings contain vita-
 min B. My doctor advises vitamin B to help arthritis. But vltasnin
 3 increases appetite. So there !
 am, In 6 circle. What to do2" can't find any mention of rice polishings in the booklet. On ?. IS mentioned polished rice, along with defined corn meal, syrups, sugars and white Hours, as constituting the refined carbohydrates of which most people take too much for the good of their health anyway. Polished rice Is the ordinary white or pearl rice. The rice bran or surface coat removed by polishing constitutes rice polishings, and rice polishlngs are rich In vitamin B. Refined white rice Is poor in vitamin B. So called red or brown rice, that is, natural unpoliShed rice, or wild rice, IS therefore preferable if rice is used to any considerable extent In the diet.
 Mrs. d's inference that rice pol- ishings have anything to do with causing arthritis, or any othe rail. ment for that matter, Is an unfor. tunate error.
 And l assure Mrs. c she Is not caught In 6 vicious circle. No mat. ter how much v!tabin B she may take, 1t cannot give her aI1 excess sive appetite or craving for food. 1t may Do true that in heriberi there is loss of appetite in advanced cases, and treatment with vitamin B helps to restore the appetite. But there is no ground whatever for the notion that vitaEnin 3 or aany other vitanin or vitamins will cause abnormal increase in Q nor. nal or ordinary appetite. On the contrary, as endeavor to explain in Rules for Reducing, supplement- ing the reducing diet with 6 suite able daily ration of vitamins usual. iy has the effect Mrs. c mentions hunger satished with less food than one has required while sub- sisting on the conventional diet in which refined carbohydrates, dena- turized and devitayninized, supply most of the calories.