Show Food Fads Or r Education Dr D D. D Keith Barnes Food fads and food lood quackery have existed throughout the thc ages Food has been associated with the mystic magic and the supernatural With the marked increase in scientific knowledge and ready ease of its dissemination dissemination dissemination one one- would expect a lessening lessening lessening les les- les- les of such pernicious tice The opposite appears to tobe tobe tobe be the case One wonders that with our increased increased in in- creased knowledge of nutrition there has been shrewder m methods methods meth meth- th- th of oC distorting truths and an increase in the number of oC these practitioners It is becoming more difficult to differentiate between fact and fad lad The quiz programs demonstrate how easily easily easily ily the lay person can be bilked The unscrupulous will methodically methodically methodi methodi- call cally distort the truth boast fake Cake claims promise youth beauty wisdom and health- health threatening illness and e even eve v e n death unless their advice is taken We postulate is this an enlightened enlightened en en- lightened age when such faddist faddist faddist fad fad- dist flourish and the public buy products advertised to c cur cure u r e anything from ache to steril sterile ity A social Anthropologist could well explore the factors that make so so man many educated Americans prey to the Wiles of the These cults are a menace to public health It is a hazard because the misinformed believe believe be be- lieve the teachings use the product product product pro pro- duct and too often avoid proper proper pro pro- per pel medical guidance It is destructive destructive destructive de de- de- de to the concepts of proven nutrition It is likewise I Ian an economic danger Too many families throw throwaway away their earnings earnings earnings earn earn- ings on worthless products and senseless literature instead of purchasing wholesome f Coo food o o d from their grocers for lor less mone money Barnum had a name for Cor it it- it One born every minute Health Is Natures Nature's Greatest Gift Gilt To Man Preserve Man Preserve It All Season Auto Salesman explaining to lo I green customer TIllS Thus is is' is the radiator and this is the fan i Lady Lady Oh Oh then its it's an all all- season ca car |