The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-07

Defense Activities, successfully
summed up this thesis when he
told the Presidents recent Nu-
triton Conference:
Something frequently hap
pens to good food when its Sc
lection is distilled through the
coils of an expert. Food loses its
gastronomic gusto. A fellow gets
the uncomfortable feeling that he
is eating exactly what he ought
to and he develops q sort of gas
tronomic claustrophobia."
Every designer and maker Of
tanks, ships and planes, every
soldier and sailor, every woman
and child on our home front must
be fortified daily with a stomach
filled with the right kind Of food
that tastes the way he likes it.
THAT kind Of dinner" says CO.
ordinator McNutt, contains q vi
tamin that you can't find in .
interchangeable psychological vi
tamin of human satisfaction"
IT'S NO
soft DIET
So you won't have to be kit
chen Einstein to understand, nor
q billy goat to relish, the gold
standard for nutrition" on which
the Nutrition Conference pro-.
poses to put all of America. It
simply involves more milk, more
eggs, more vegetables, more fruit
more meat, fish and whole-grain
cereals in the daily diets.
Our official national standard
of sound nutrition is anything
but soft" For "softness" is no
longer what it was 20 years ago.
During the first World War a
high ranking army officer re-
fused to permit his men to drink
milk. He didn't want them to
become milk sops." Today our
armed forces are literally sup
piled with milk.
Secretary of Agriculture Wick
ard emphasized to the recent Nu-
triton Conference: Better nu-
triton does not mean soft liv-
ing. Not growing lazy and fat. IL
means becoming harder, more
efficient, better able to 60 with
out luxuries when we have to-"
Better nutrition" also means
a great deal more than more
food" There are two kinds of
hunger now recognized by health
experts-hollow hunger and hid
den hunger. A man may eat until
his belt snaps and still lack some
of the 40 or more food elements
essential to keep up his morale
and strength. A lot of food may
satisfy his hollow hunger, but
only the right kinds of food will
satisfy his hidden hunger.
Lack of purchasing power Is
one of the major causes Of hidden
hunger. The protective foods,
such as vegetables and fruits,
dairy products and milk, are rel
atively expensive. However, re-
search workers in nutrition have
often found that men and wom-
en- on relief where diets were
supervised by trained men, fire.
quently had better health and
less hidden hunger than men and
women of bountiful means who
eat according to habit, prejudice
and whim.
So satisfy hidden hunger is
not entirely a matter of dollars.
BRAIN WORKERS
NEED vlTAM1NS, TOO
Nor is hidden hunger involved
with the kind of job-muscle or
mental-you do. In the words Of
DR.. Henry c. Sherman, an out
standing nutrition expert: mo
matter how hrainy q mans work
may be, his ability to do it effect
lively, depends on the stamina of
his organism. Nutrition affects
the level of health and stamina
largely by its influence on the
body's environment. That inter-
nal environment, which we now
know to be influenced by even
everyday differences of food ha-
bit, is in all probability fully as
important to mental work and
sound decisions as 1t is to muscu-
lar and physical contest"
Executives in key defense
positions may well be the bottle
necks in about efficiency be-
cause through improper diet,
they lack the stamina to work ut
their highest efficiency.
Thus, Americas drive to i'm
prove nutritional standards
means--in terms any enemy can
understand Just % quickly - he
understands the whir Il $4,000
airplanes -that we shall soon
have stronger, healthier, more
productive, alert men and wom-
en- for the military front and
home 1font alike,
Jhlv Aoee MT man that The