Show How Your Body Makes Sugar 3 I From ro Starches in Your Food I IA de By y Dr T Leonard a Keene ee H Hirshberg A A. A B B. B M. M A A. M. M D. D Johns Hopkins University Roses Rose are arc re rc V violets are blue bue sugars sugar's sweet and so are you That old nursery rhyme of ot childhoods childhood's happy happy hap hap- py hours gives you a n ct clue clie e to a method methodI I to tide over this plentiful lack of or I sweetness It Is literally true that I the physiological mechanism of ot man manI j I makes him sweet for much of ot what Is IsI I eaten b becomes comes sugar that is stored In Inthe Inthe inthe the bod body Su Sugar ar after all Is a a. blood brother of ot starch Both are arc Included In that branch of or nutritious Bub ances called I carbohydrates Since Sinco starches are aro aroI I changeable Je Into tho the equivalent of or BugarI sugar Bugar I you 1 0 should worry about any decrease I In the civilians civilian supply of or sugar Starch In food Is without taste until the th moisture and enzymes of ot tho the saliva MIIa begin to convert It Into sugar The moment It Il tastes sweet you know It has haft begun to change Into sugar ar Sugar as saccharine levu- levu lose maltose or an any of or the multitudes multitude of or ch chemically different su sugars I Is moro more easily absorbed and di digested digested dl- dl than In starch As glucose or dextrose Into which the saliva and stomach Juices juiceR quickly convert most starches and other sugars It lt Is quickly made mado use ulle of or b by the tissues Sugar thus taken Into tho the stomach I sometimes finds Its way a Into the blood In three or four tour minutes This avidity avid Id It ity of ot the living fluids for sugar la is only one ono bit of or testimony to prove provo that sugar I is essential to tho best health It yields heat and energy and Is a stimulant to the flesh Your mU muscles cles become flabby and almost almo t useless without without without with with- out the tho sweets you OU know not of or After starch arrives es In the stomach It t Is almost wholly changed ed Into sugar This work Is la done dona largely In the tho aman loops ot of the bowel after alter the tho starch i ihas has departed the bag Th The healthy stomach makes acids which are capable of ot changing starch to sugar i but It Is la the alkali and the ferments of ot tho the Intestines or the saliva which does most of or the tho work i Practically all alt vegetable foods contain con tam tain either sugar or starch or both When you eat trul fruits and succulent vegetables you ou have a l diet which is 1 rich In carbohydrates As far tor as necessities of or digestion are concerned you OU need not hot add any sugar rugal to your our foods toad I I The real hardship felt about want of or t sugar sus-nr Is fR because taste for tor sweets cots is j not gratified Tho absence of or sugar Is not much of or a n. dietetic misfortune f Before Detore tho war there thero were wore consumed about eighty pounds of ot sugar per jer head of or population Only England consumed more sugar per head Tho rho taste 14 for tor Jams Jollies jellies candles candle an and l confections Is 18 largely an acquired acquired one and as 18 you accustom yourself to todo to todo do without sugar the craving for It will diminish The United Stat States s and Its possessions posses posses- i alons tho the Philippines Hawaiian Islands Islands' 1 and Porto Rico produce close to half halt tho the sugar wo we consume Cuba furnishes tho the rest Louisiana produces tons ton the Hawaiian Islands th the i Philippine Islands Inlands and PortoRico PortoRico Porto Rico tons of or cano cane sugar In aU i tons The United d States J al also o j produces tons of ot beet sugary sugar giving a l. l total production of ot sugar in in the United States and Its dependencies dependencies' V of at tons If It all the Cuban sugar were used we would be consuming tons of or sugar BUS which would give us nearly pounds per par head hend |