The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-03-31

we won't, but we get a hint Of
such possibilities in the reinforced
bread that is in the process Of
being marketed.
This idea was promulgated at
meeting last fall, attended by
Surgeon-General Thomas Parran
and nutritional experts, such as
DR.. Tom Spies of Birmingham,
Alabama, and DR.. Russell Wilder,
of Rochester, MINI. l personally
cannot subscribe to the statements
some of these gentlemen are
quoted to have made. DR.. Parran,
for instance, indicated that 40 per
cent Of the people of the United
States are not getting an adequate
diet, and DR.. Paul de Kruif. who
was also present at that meeting,
said in print there were millions
Of people in the country who were
suffering from vitamin deficiency.
Both of these statements strike
me as slightly exaggerated. But
there are undoubtedly many such
cases and the new reinforced
bread is certainly adequate to
supply their needs.
vitamin Deficiency
Bread is particularly likely to
be on the diet list Of a certain kind
Of vitamin deficiency patient. This
is the lonely person who patches"
it and prepares his own meals.
The consequence is he is likely to
eat proeessed food-crackers and
oleomargarine and coffee and
bread. During the days before
much was known about vitamins,
the food industry was very proud
Of the improvements they made
in processing such foods. 1t must
be admitted that modern fine,
white, miller's -four is very de-
licious. The only thing is that we
have found that this processing
removes many Of the valuable
minerals and vitamins. Now the
Surgeon-General's Office, with the
cooperation Of the millers, has
proposed to add thiamine chloride
(BD, which is found in the rough
age elements Of the food and so
often missing from processed
foods. They also add iron and mic
otinic acid, which latter is the ele-
ment which prevents pellagra.
Other examples of this tendency
is the present custom of adding
Vitamin D TO milk and Vitamin A
to oleomargarine. Thus people on
a limited budget can get foods
that are as rich in vitamins as the
more highly priced foods.
Experience in the immediate
past has shown the value Of these
precautions.
The defeat OF the Germans in
1918 is said TO have been partly
due to malnutrition. The rout Of
the Italians at Capanetto in Octo-
Der, 1917, followed the drastic re-
duction in the army ration which
had been put in effect in February.
Lenten Reducing Diet
Breakfast: l portion apple
sauce; egg; slice bread, Il inch
thick; pat butter; teaspoon
sugar; l glass milk; coffee.
Lunch: l cup vegetable soup;
small baked potato; salad =
leaves lettuce, slice pineapple,
/ inch thick, inch cube cheese;
/ slice bread, y inch thick; u pat
butter; glass milk.
Dinner: 1 glass grapefruit
Juice; l portion roast beef (lean) ;
l portion carrots; portion kale
u slice bread. y inch thick; "a
pat butter; portion melon balls
tea with lemon.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
L.J.R.:-"I am subject TO hard.
ening Of the arteries and have
been taking mineral oil and would
like to know if mineral oil has any
effect on the arteries TO soften
them or to harden them? Should
! give it up?"
Answer-Mineral oil has no ef.
feet one. way or the other on the
process Of hardening Of the ar.
teries and there is no reason why
anybody should give up its regu'
lar use.
.a " ,,.avy,,t daad for all the