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Show Health and Beauty By DR. SOPHIA BRUNSON " BEWARE OF FILLED MILK There is a product on the market mar-ket known as "filled milk." This is a "compound of skimmed milk and a vegetable oil such as cocoa-nut, cocoa-nut, which is concentrated by evaporation." It is usually packed pack-ed 14-ounce cans which are almost identical to those which contain evaporated whole milk. The filled milk is similar in taste, color and consistency to the evaporated whole milk. It is labeled so as to appear much the same as evaporated whole milk, and is distributed through the same channels and is displayed and advertised in most instances as milk or exaporated milk. The difference in the two products is not readily apparent either to grocer or consumer. Whole milk of good quality contains con-tains fat which rises to the top as cream. The cream is the most nutritious nu-tritious part of the milk, and contains con-tains vitamins A and D, which are in cream and butter. Milk fat not only has a delicious flavor, but is easier to digest than most fats owing to the fact that the globules are suspended in a natural emulsion. emul-sion. Whole milk also contains bone-forming bone-forming and sustaining calcium, also phosphorus, which is neces sary to the body. It only contains a very small portion of iron, though what it has is very easily assimulated. Whole milk is the most important of all foods for children and the pregnant women, for it is the most important source of calcium known. Bones and teeth cannot develop and harden properly proper-ly without a liberal supply of calcium cal-cium and phosphorus which is found in good, whole milk. The vitamins are just as essential essen-tial to the human body as are the minerals. An inadequate amount of vitamin A is shown by poor growth, want of vitality, and low resistance to bacterial infections. Lack of this valuable vitamin shows itself by poor eyesight, especially es-pecially at night, which is known as night-blindness, and if allowed to progress may end in total blindness. You have seen that essential elements are contained in the fat or cream of whole milk but there is no evidence to show that the oil in filled milk which has been substituted sub-stituted for the cream in whole milk contains any of the vitamins or other essential elements found in cream. Scientists who have been working in the field of nutrition advise that filled milk is no sub stitute for whole milk which is such an important part of the diet of our people, especially infants and small children. Not only will the oils contained in filled milk fail to supply the essential needs of the body but there is no evidence to show that they may end in total blindness. In buying condensed or evaporated evapor-ated milk, be sure to accept only accredited brands. Do not depend on your grocer he himself might be misled by the representations of the salesman who in turn may know nothing about the real value of the product which he is selling. , Whole milk that is obtained from healthy, well-fed cows and has been properly handled, is the best food on earth. Only those who are allergic to it need substitutes, substi-tutes, and it requires an expert to find out what other foods will take the place of milk for those who cannot use it. The sale of filled milk is prohibited prohi-bited by law in some states, and in others, laws to stop its sale are being considered. |