The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-13
REAL AND MAKE-BELIEvE
 SALAD

Mrs. Newlyrich whose husband draws nearly a hundred week now, was fresh out of sugar aud SO was the market where she usually traded. But an acquaintance told her she had seen plenty of sugar in another market, so Mrs. Newlyrich hurried thither, only to discover, to her disgust, that the large supply of sugar there was not cane sugar at all, but beet sugar.
 Perhaps the chemists can distin- guish sucrose, sugar, obtained from sugar cane from Sucrose, sugar, ob- tained from the sufgar beet. ! wouldn't know or care particularly. I do know that so far as nutritive value, taste, flavor, digestibility. purity, appearance, cost and suita- bility for table or general use in the diet of infant, child and adult may be concerned, there is no known difference between can SUI gar and bt sugar.
 Mrs. Newlyrich, alias Mrs. Misin- formed, comes naturally by this peculiar prejudice, for the credul- ous Yankee public has been sthor- oughly educated, these past two or three generations by the big white flour interests, to regard refined white flour as pure" preferable for refined people, and particularly worth a higher price than plain whole wheat or other grades of flour that have not been so thor oughly denaturized, that it, so conl~ pletely deprived of the essential minerals and vitaminS that ar0 prestnt in wheat.
 Being so highly educated by th0 food barons, Mrs. Newlyrich or Mrs. Misinformed readily forgetS the prime purpose of salad in tho well-planned dinner, which is to give every one who partakeS of the meal at least a part of the minerals and vitamins the ordinary mixed diet of most American people fails to provide in adequate proportions to maintain good nutrition and ef- ficient function. My the time the average cook gets through fussing with it, the salad too often re- sembles a lollypop in taste, appear. ance and nutritive value.
 A real or proper salad should contain only RAW herbs or leafy greens, vegetables and maybe fruit. Never any cooked food. If 1t, is a ,, real or proper salad it is of little significance what condiment, sea- soning or dressing one prefers that is matter of individual taste.
 RAW greens, vegetables fruits retain nearly all of the minerals and vitamins that grow ill them. Cooking invariably destroys con- siderable part if not most of the vitamins, and the minerals dissolve out in the cooking water and are thrown away-unless this water is carefully saved and used in making soup, gravy, etc. 2
 Overfed, overweight people who overeat, especially those who have an excessive or unsuitable craving for refined carbohydrates should cultivate salads. mean real salads Gall raw foods).
 QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Postcard Piffie Too
 I would appreciate your sending to the address below your pamphlet How to Lose Weight"
 (Mrs. H. c. D.
 Answer - Who is to pay the freight, LadyP Read the instruc- tions. please and next time you ask for the pamphlet inclose a stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress-youll find that apart from being an awful grouch about these little amenities I'm not so dreadful as sound.
 Tuberculosis
 Are sunbaths beneficial for q person with tuberculosis Of the lungs? Would 1t be advisable to take vitamin D and calcium?
 CMrs. B. O.
 Answer-The answer to both qrtes- tions is yes, but only under the supervision of the patients own physician. It would be extremely foolhardy to monkey with such things on your own or wtthouu your physisian's advice.
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