Show ift an i iBy b n By y Lulu Hunt Peters l I fiD rero t eef aed LEAD EAD AND WATER SEN- SEN 1 I fourteen years ears a Nebraska r las has been sentencing certain Dels to bread an and water d diets eri ds of ot ten days He states li he l e never heard of ot Its injuring jo o until now flow Some bone of ot these theseS theseS' S' S got up a great hullabaloo was going to find out for It and announced that he fl tt l sentence himself to a five bread bread and water diet and if undecided ed at the end of ot five whether it is cruel he will hue ue for lor al' al another other five days cat eat white bread so he h sen rye bread ude ge is 75 years of ot age He lie old sport to to toso so sentence if Ife even even if for only one half L e time Im I'm afraid he will from flom it it however for those i cave e been getting up the great aloo loo DO have right on their side of pf white bread tn-ead and water I that IS is- what the pris- pris get is a diet that Is largely ent In vitamins com complete lete pro- pro fat l and minerals so the judge j responsibility of sentencing i and himself not only t monotonous and unI un- un ig diet but to the possibility I orvy pellagra and acidosis I wm- wm grains after t In the body leave leaved lit residue d With none of the sizing ing food group milk group milk vegetables vegetables-to to neutralize f cd Jd d. d the condition known ass as asIs asis is s Is certain to be produced condition is a great fac- fac the resistance so and degenerative es can get a foothold les flier point of ot the acid pro pro- is that it Jt gives elves a highly rive which will deposit uric which which may form kidney or or oriF w stones HIndhede calls atto at- at att iF t 1 to the fact that the Russian it t who works fourteen to toa ton n a hours daily and lives al- al exclusively upon bread fre- fre gravel MUther th then a sentence of ot ten da days s 's 9 sided diet t would cause conditions condItions' I have jT of of or not would depend the Initial state of the pm- pm l and resistance It is 11 frown lO how long vitamins areri are Jin In ri the body but It is m ir very short tim time not more than three or four days Probably v I in i n the ten days of the bread and water sentence th there le might not be an any well vell developed cases of deficiency de- de deficiency de de- diseases In those whose resistance re re- re sIsta ce yeas yaa high but in the pris oner whose health was already und undermined un un- un- un d rI the judges judge's responsibility wO would ld be rather great If It the bread used Is the ordinary white bread especially one made I without milk mme the diet would be much more deficient than If the bread were made of whole grains and milk for in the refining of grains there is a n. large abstraction of the mineral elements vitamins and the better grade of protein However the protein of grains even when the protein of the bran and the germ is used is not a biologIcally bio blo- logically complete protein accordIng according according accord- accord Ing to animal research disclosures that is it is lacking In some of the essential elements necessary to build into body protein If H the prIsoner prisoner pris prIs- oner hadn't his full fun growth this would work a double d damage mage tor both the growth needs and repair needs would be limited Bread is a wholesome well liked and needed addition to the normal norms diet but It must be supplemented by y the foods that give the vitamins and mineral elements fat and complete complete com com- protein As I think of It now without further research In the matter the chief objection to the bread and water diet Is the lack of vitamins especially the scurvy anti-scurvy vitamins There's Theres another point If any o of f these prisoners should happen to be a n. diabetic he would certainly be sentenced to death Not ot so good Judge Hope you ou dont don't Imp impair lr your own health In your conscious effort to learn first hand Tomorrow Tomorrow-R Tomorrow Rheumatism Copyright r Ight ht 1926 by the George Matthew Adams Service |