The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

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 CARBOHYDRATE DENATURIzED
 In everybodys' diet from two thirds to three-quarters of the cal- ories come from carbohydrate (starch or sugar. in one form ol another. In the diet of an actively playing child or an athletic boy or girl carbohydrate may well supply four1fifths of the salories required.
 This is natural and normal and 1t is mistake to imagine either starch or sugar is in any way un- wholesome, difficult to digest, likely to cause "gas" or other trouble.
 The real trouble with our modern diet is that most of the starch and most of the sugar in it is refined (white flour, white sugar. and most of the vitamins and minerals that grow with it are removed dur ing the refining. Due to our use of refined white flour and refined white sugar in place of the whole wheat flour and crude brown open ketle molasses and sugar the peo- pie unsed a century ago, more than half of the calories in the average American diet today are in the form of food that supplies only about 50 international units of vit- amin B1, whereas more than half of the calories in the average American diet prior to 1840 (about that periol modern refining of sugar and wheat began) were in the form of food that supplied 500 international units of vitamin B1. You pay your money but still you have no choice. Chances are that if you do set out to buy little real whole wheat flour or even a few pounds of plain wheat to grind yourself, and pail or jug or quart or gallon of old-faShioned malos ses (made by boiling down the cane or sorgum or beet in open vesseD or old-fashioned crude brown sugar (made in similar fashion, you'll come back defeated, exhausted, dis gusted and sore. It just isn't being done nowadays. Gosh all hemlock, stopped at a roadside feed and grain store and asked the man for a peck of that wheat there in the bin. The man wanted to know what I was going to do with it. When I confessed I had thought of eating 1t he looked at me sus- piciously and explained that it was just fod feeding chickens or live stock. I persisted. But the man tried to reason with me. I finally got away with several pounds of it, but I nearly had to conk the man over the head and help myself to it.
 In few markets, readers tell me, you can find crude unrefined sugar, but so thoroughly inoculated are the gullible American people that, believe it or not, there is a warning notice printed on the bag (some state or federal law to the effect that the crude sugar Is not intended for human consumption. Evidently all it needs to make 1t fit for human consumption is 8, cellophane wrapper and picture of pretty girl printed on the package
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Pyorrhea
 What is the treatment you advise for one with pyorrhea? My dentist says I have it but he knows of noth- ing for it. (Miss K. Mo
 Answer - Your dentist certainly knows of something for it if he is at all fit to practice dentistry. There is no specific remedy or treatment, so far as know. Dentist and phy- sician should cooperate, after con- sulting together, on the treatment.
 Iron
 Please tell me whether the system requires more iron than is generally taken in from vegetables, or should one take daily doses of tincture of iron and If SO in what quantity?
 (Mrs. N. s.
 Answer-The body requires per- haps less than one-fourth of a grain of iron a day. The following foods contain that much iron: Two ounces of letucte, 2ls ounces of oatmeal, three ounces of egg yolk, four ounces of lean beef, ounces of spinach. ounces of raisins, ounces of peas, T ounces of onions, ounces of prunes. Other good sources of iron are molasses, maple syrup, plain wheat, almonds, oysters, dates, pea nuts, walnuts, apples, oceans, cur- rants. Tinctur eof iron is perhaps the least desirable form of iron to take, if you take any iron at all Send ten cents and stamped en velops bearing your address. foJ booklet Blood and Health" which gives instruction for preparing good iron tonic at home.
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