The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-12


only, and then only through
his column.
trust to appetite and taste in
selecting our meals and who arc
not continually holding vision Of
a nutrition table IN front Of our
minds eye when We sit down TO
the table.
| reported in this column a few
weeks ago an experiment | con-
Quoted on myself when az the end
Of a more or less typical day for
me | wrote down exactly what |
had for breakfast, lunch and din
ner, and the amounts, and then
with the help Of food tables |
figured how close the daily require
meuts laid down by nutritional
- science came 10 what / actually
had TO eat.
i emphasized then, md repeat
now, that | made no deliberate
selection, in any attempt to match
the ideal food table. | ate what
came along naturally, what was
set before me and in the case Of
lunch, what looked good on the
menu. In fact did not think of
what ! was eating at the time and
only at the end Of the day wrote
down from memory the contents
and amounts Of the food in my
meals.
Natural Choice Good
The interesting thing is that il
] had tried 10 cat an ideal days
food intake, ideal from the stand
point say Of the National Research
Councils Nutritionai Require
ments, | could hardly have come
closer. |, by choice and. if you
want TO say instinct, took in about
1900 calories which IS about right
for a seientary bloke like me. l
had 70 grams Of protein. and the
ideal is go to 70 | had iron, cal
cium and other minerals galore
and about five times as much Of
every vitamin as the minimum re-
quiremsnts laid down by science.
Some will say that am regu-
larry receiving the literature Of
the National Research Council and
that | read the requirements and
that memory alone and self-pres-
ervation induced me 10 choose as
| did. But | don't think so. The
lady who selects the food and
cooks my meals in my home does
not read the bulletins of the Ma
tional Research Council. ! believe
that long ingrained interplay be-
tween nutritionsl needs and food
supply has conditioned all Of us to
get an adequate diet. This didn't
happen just in my lifetime. AMI
mails, including man, have been
conditioning themselves 10 the
available food supply so that APP
petite and taste land markets in
our present state Of civilization
bring them what they need, with
out worry on their part.
Experiment with Rats
Here is where the rats come in
10 the argument. Richter, Of Johns
Hopkins University School Of
Medicine, kept some rats for 16
days on a diet adequate in all 9TH
er respects except for Nitamin B.
When at the end Of this time liver
and yeast (Vitamin B substances)
were offered 10 them along with
their usual diet, they plunged on
the liver and yeast. Rats made
diabetic by pancreas removal
stopped eating carbohydrate and
started eating fat TO make up their
energy requirement.
As an analogy every physician
knows the instructive craving for
salt exhibited by patients with
Addison's disease, in which the
salt loss is very high. Rats surgi-
cally made into Addison's disease
subjects will do the same thing.
! do not like to call-this instinct
because that is q very complicated
word. But it is possible that Sc
lected appetites in tissues provoke
sensations difficult to define which
leads to selection Of foodstuffs
That are needed, just as the easily
recognized sensation Of appetite
leads hungry man TO eat plenty.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
r. C.:-Please discuss dandrutf
its cause and cure.
Answer: DandruF is seborrhoic
dermatitis Of the scalp. 1t prob
ably is due 10 an infection by a
fungus or, less often, a staphy-
lococcus. The infection IN often
be traced to a visit to a hair dress
ing establishment for a permanent
wave, etc. In treatment the fol-
lowing lotion has been found eff
fective: Resorcinal - 20 parts,
tncture canthsrides - 20 parts,
oil Of bergamot-20 parts, glycerin
. parts. alcohol-l20 parts. rose
water sufficient to make l000parts.
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