The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-22

only, and then only through
has column.
bic juices during the last few years
by health food cafeterlas, ideas
that vegetable juices constitute a
tumor treatment, and other half
baked ideas.
The plain facts as anyone
can tell you who has ever tried
them, unless he is plain crank
that raw vegetables are less di-
gestible than cooked vegetables.
Furthermore. one Of the principal
advantages Of vegetables Is that
they furnish roughage, which ad-
vantage vanishes when you use the
juices, and the vegetable bulk con-
tains great deal Of solid nour-
ishment not found in the juices.
II someone could just get to-
gether group Of food faddists
and get them photographed, 1t
would 60 far towards dispelling
the theories they stand for. Most
Of them are physical wrecks. or
course, they say that the reason
they have to eat special kind OF
diet is that their constitutions are
so weak, but the fact is their con-
stitutions are weak because they
eat the kind Of hay they do.
Food Faddists
| know a fellow VINO believed
that the only healthy food was pea
nuts. How ne got in that frame
of mind. ! don't know. 1t wouldn't
seem nAtura, for the creator of the
universe to plan the universe on
that basis and then make the places
where peanuts grow so few and
far between. Well, if ne was an
example Of peanuts as an exclusive
diet, ne was mistit - he was a
physical wreck.
saw another person in the
clinic last year who was a bright
yellow color. At first the attend
ants thought he was jaundiced, but
the history developed the fact that
ne had been drinking quart of
carrot juice day for over year.
Now carrots are fine vegetables
and they contain vitamin A and
roughage and lots Of other things,
but they are much better taken
whole and cooked than in the form
OF juice. OF course, carotene in ex-
cess does no harm, but it looks
peculiar.
Unscientiie Claims
The point Of these remarks is
the increase in the number Of raw
vegetable bars in all our cities,
where claims are made for vege-
tables that are utterly unscientlhc
and result not in good health, but
bad health. It's all right TO say that
the wild animals eat them raw, but
you are not a wild animal and your
digestive system has become con-
ditioned for centuries TO having
your vegetables cooked, which
breaks up the cellulose, gives the
digestive juices a chance and suits
your nutritional demands just as
well as the juice.
Then | hear that q combination
OF raw spinach juice. raw cucum-
Der juice, raw carrot juice and raw
beet juice is harmful. That spinach
contains oxalic acid and this rem
ders the calcium in the body use
less. The fact is that the inhn-
iteslmal amount of oxalic acid
contained in spinach is eliminated
by the kidneys pronto, and the cal
cium goes ON just the same. What
possible harm could the raw juices
Of such perfectly good vegetables
as spinach. carrots, beets and Gu
cumbers do?
Verify, a little learning is .
dangerous thing.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
X. G.: Will you kindly write an
article on the function of the
adrenal gland, and how it should
be treated. Any connection with
arthritis?
Answer: That is a large order TO
answer. There are two parts to
the adrenaI gland. One part is
the substance from which we get
adrenslin, and 1t mostly exercises
control over the circulation. The
other part is connected with the
functions Of the pituitary and the
gonads and we don't know 80 much
about that. However, none Of
them have any connection with
arthritis.