The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-06
THE MAGIC SUGAR

From away back, this column has been strong for sugar, candy and other sweets. Within reason, with in reason. Pray don't confuse or Doc Brady with Santa Claus. It pains me worse than 1t does you, children, when I say there are times and conditions when 1t is advisable to take candy away from baby, pap from growing child and ice cream and cake from bouncing belle or buxom matron. Naturally I'd rath- CT be over on the bowling green when the operation Is performed, but still, If you pinned me down, I would not hesitate to say that 1t must be done-for the sake of the patients ultimate welfare and hap piness.
 Different kinds or forms of sugar may have slight technical differ neces, but practically such differ neces are insignificant so far as the use of sugar as food or medicine is concerned. Dextrose or glucose (tWo names for the same thing), sucrose, or beet or cane or sorg- hum sugar., lactose (milk sugar., maltese (glucose or deXtrose pro- duced by germination of grain) or levulose (fruit sugar., it doesn't matter which you prefer, one is as good as the other for infant, child or adult. Molasses, cane syrup, corn syrup, sorghum syrup, maple syr- up-they're the same in digestibil- ity and nutritive value, with only differences in flavor or taste or ap- pearance.
 There is no foundation for the fancy that person with diabetes can safely take one kind of sugar if the quantity taken exceeds his or her carbohydrate tolerance.
 The height of absurdity in refer ence to the use of sugar by obese persons is attained by this elucida- tion of the matter recently pub- lished:
 "Dextrose actually helps burn ex- tra fat. A relative small amount Of 1t relieves the hunger bangs of those who are dieting. DeXtrose, in brief, is a non-fattening sweet be- cause it is absorbed into the blood so quickly and completely that 1t can't accumulate as fat"
 ThaS settles it - ,iextruse is tiir magic sugar, all right, only I do wish the prestidisitator would car ry on and explain what happens to the deXtrose after it has ben ab- sorbed into the blood? Trouble with ordinary sugars is they are too likely to be converted into fat after they have been absorbed into the blood. That is the memorable law of physiology. But dextrose, dear me, If you can absorb 1t quickly enough you just carry 1t around in your blood and you need never give a thought to getting fat. All this, like all magic, is of course the bunk.
 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 Epilepsy
 Young woman has had epileptic fits, once when happened to be present, and I was nearly scared 10 death, Another girl who noticed how scared l was said that If a person Is nervous she would develop them herself GIT, M
 Answer Fright or being nervous has nothing whatever to do with epilepsy, so you need not give 1t an- other thought, have no advice or information on epilopsy~the subject Is outside of the province of health, something that demands individual consideration of your own physician,
 Mtnreai oil iD Salad Dressing
 Can you tell me of s0mo oil that can be used In salad dressing, low in ealories2 Mrs, Q, II, ID
 Answefw Mineral oil yields no eal- cries pt all Recipe Tor preparing mineral oil salad dressing Is given in booklet Rules for Redolng"a-f0f copy send go cents and stamped on. yel0Da bearing y0lr Address,
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