Evening star., 1943-09-07
Letters to the Editor
White Bread Blamed
For Dental Caries.


For Dental Caries.
10 the Editor Of Tho star:
A notice in local paper reads: "War
Bread Will Be White. Rich in Minerals
and Vitamins."
In the laboratories Of the Department
Of Agriculture they raise -four weeyils
for experimental purposes. Their object
is to find some fumigant that will ex-
terminate them from stored food prod
ucts, and from -four mills. For the
breeding Of these weevils they use whole
wheat flour, as they told me that the
insects cannot live in white flour. No
wonder 1t will keep indefinitely, as 1t
is not worth eating, even for an insect!
In the whole wheat we have all that
Is necessary to build bone, nerve and
bodily tissues, yet science seeks to i'm
prove upon nature by adding certain
chemicals to wheat -four and still keep it
white.
Alfred w. McCann, in his Science Of
Eating" writes: 1.-THE grains Of the f1eld
barley, rice, wheat, corn and rye-con-
tain normal traces of iodine before they
are refined, but there is not q chemist
in the country who can discover q trace
ton of refined white bread, biscuit,
crackers, cakes, table sirup, cornstarch,
tapioca, glucose or sugar candy or any
other denatured foods upon which man
is now striving to sustain a normal body
under dreadful handicaps"
DR.. Victor Heiser, former health COM
missioner of the Philippines, concerned
himself especially with this diet question
He says that in the Imperial Institute of
Japan doctors can prolong the healing
of a wound or hasten the healing
almost unbelievably, all with change
in diet. He writes: Before the Amer
ican brought his highly -milled white,
bleached flour, cereals and other foods
to Hawaii, strong, white teeth flashed
from dark faces. No sooner had Amer
lean diet been substituted for the ma
tive food than an 80 per cent tooth decay
developed, figure identical with that in
the United States Four years ago 1000
children were shifted back to the diet
of their forefathers. The very first year
tooth decay dropped to 40 per cent and
is now about 8. Surely we are what
we eat!"
The millers contend that their ma
not be changed without great expense.
The wheat flour Is bolted through
cloth to take out all the bran, and then
1t is bleached by electricity-both proc
esses waste of time and money, to
produce a devitalized food
A doctor In the Department of Agri-
culture told me that they had great
trouble in keeping whole wheat bread
from getting moldly. I told him we
never had any such trouble as we keep
1t in the refrigerator during warm
weather.
If you feed sparrows white bread you
before long will see that they are so
sick that they cannot get of the ground.
have seen them make efforts to fly
and tumble over their heads. think
1t was my friend Bernarr Macfadden
who bet man $1,000 that he could
live on nothing but water as long as that
man could live on white bread only
he won his bet. H. B. BRADFORD.
Military Agreement Held Competent to
Have Stopped Hitler's Attack on Poland.
To the Editor of The Star:
Much new and unfinished business
awaits the Congress to be reconvened
September IA.
Not least-possibly most important of
the latter class, as the future may prove
will be completed Senate action on
pending resolutions which would pledge