Show Dr Fishbein's Health Talks By y DR MORRIS EIN You may do more than bake bread with yeast cast nowadays In fact yeast has been touted as ac such a panacea for human uman illnesses that th you might want wont wanto to o know actually what this substance really eally has in It and aDd what it pushes As long ago a o as 1500 B. B C C. C yc yeast t vas was vas recommended by the Egyptians for or constipation It also was mentioned in the writings of most ancient However the real qualities of yeast are arc still being studied in the light lightf ol of f our new knowledge of chemistry and nd nutrition For instance what we know about abou vitamins is only a matter of some ome 15 or 20 years ears TOda Today we know that yeast yeasts IS 35 s made up of or several vitamins which are arc re of particular Value in preventing I pellagra and beriberi a disease associated asso elated with Inflammation of the nerves It has always seemed doubtful however how however ever that most moat Americans needed ex ex- tra ra yeast in their diets because th the average American diet contains enough fresh vegetables fresh fruits and meats to provide an adequate amount of vitamin BI B. B ff I Unfortunately such studies have not lot been made of or the diet of people living iving in industrial and mining communities com corn to make certain that they actually actually ac actually do receive all the foods they need Some physicians in a large city in us Michigan found that the diets of workers work work- ers were mostly beans coffee bread Irish potatoes pork grocery store cakes and enough canned milk and sugar to flavor the coffee That kind of diet obviously is is deficient deli dent in the vitamins to be found in yeast The investigators decided to test lest the effects of feeding yeast on the children of these workers and also to feed extra yeast to some who had complained of 01 loss ass of appetite or difficulties in discs discs- tion ion It was va-j found that 84 M children between be tween the ages of or 2 months and 14 years gained an average of a quarter pound a week over a week 12 period as contrasted with 78 children who did not take yeast and who gained an average average av avo av- av crage of one eighth pound a week over the same period I Most Moot of these who had been troubled troubled trou bled with lack of appetite found their digestion improved when they took small amounts of ot yeast dail daily Apparently no one was harmed in any way wayby wayby wayby by addition of yeast to the diet Investigations of ot this type help to establish the values of yeast that have long lone been recognized in medicine Do Donot Donot Donot not take this however as proving that yeast east is in any sense of ot the word a panacea for all types of illnesses The great difficulty with the American Amen Amerl can attitude toward any substance of this kind is the all or nothing policy We Ve fail to recognize the limit of uses of a certain substance but endeavor instead to establish the belief belie that Uit if U it is good for one thing it is good for everything I Copyright 1934 NEA Inc i |