Show t V VI tI I I I Secrets of Health and I I Happiness i Fats Pats Other Than Lard Needed I a Sustaining Life-Sustaining Diet 4 B ny nr DR D KI KIhNE 1 A. A n. n M. M 1 A A. M. M 1 I n. n Johns John Hopkins I University I II I Perhaps there Is no ration moro more necessary essar essary to human health and happiness which Is also such an abomination to the palates s of man many persons than fat The very ery Individuals who at times need this element of the diet most frequently cannot abide It There Thero Is a a. substance Interwoven with most fats tats which makes for tor growth health vigor and life lite Jt Itself elt Whether this Is a or something else cle the large fact tact Is quickly evident to dietitians that a n deficiency of oils and greases In an any ration Is soon followed b by more or less ph physical disaster to those deprived of or It Tho The or sustaining life substance substance substance sub sub- stance pres present nt In butter butter fat Cat yolk olk of egg egR cream cod coil liver oil and such animal fats Cats a as goo goose e skin beef fat and the like seems to be absolutely wanting In olive oil oU corn oil and other vegetable fats The proof of this Is obtained b by the tho production of ot a catastrophe amon among anImals an- an fed feel experimentally upon rations with all r fats ts of or animal origin completely com corn eliminated Such animals cease to grow or I thrive The They fall faU swift victims to toI malnutrition and wasting diseases J and anddie anddie I die a lingering death of fat tat starvation I I Olive oil an and the the other vegetable fats are not the only greasy greas foods which lack hack this life UCe Lard pork porle and tats fats of ot a similar nature do donot donot donot not suffice to maintain health and vigor Igor Proto Prof I. I L. L B B. B Mendel of oC Yale discovered In 1913 that lard hard was about the tho only animal fat tat wholly deficient In this needed vital element clement It Is evident e from this that It Is neither cheap nor economical to use lard as the sole ole tat fat supply for tor the table The various butter substitutes substitute have recently come under Investigation In b by physiological chemists and food tood chem diem These products are so much In demand be because of their cheapness that It has become necessary to know whether the they will wm really sustain life Ufe Where there Is el e every a assurance that the oleomargarines have originated from animal tats fats there ma may be doubtless doubtless doubtless doubt doubt- less a sane expectation that are arc contained In them The more ex expensive expensive expensive ex- ex pensive butter substitutes are aro to be among these Cocoanut oil peanut oil olive e oil cottonseed cottonseed cottonseed cot cot- oil maize malo oil and sesame oil are however the sources of oC man many of the These lack the vital Ital requisites of ot real butter as do peanut butter bulter and other nut pastes The Tue In the tho animal are arc called fat tat soluble growth sub sub- stances They behave as true pabulum flab flab- and help to nourish the living tissues add to their growths and re repair repair re- re pair and maintain the vita vital principle called life lite Butter and cod liver oil are arc particularly particularly rich In Fats not of ot animal origin are arc sometimes responsible responsible responsible sible for tor grave gra nutritive disorders wasting maladies anaemia rickets Joint pains swollen limbs and other ph physical distempers blamed on almost anything but the tho need of ot animal fats and anel their |