Show You and a d Your HealtH j By DR 1 EIN Editor Journal of the American Medical l Association and arid of the Health Magazine 1 t- t tto to The standard American diet of ot many years ago was bread meat Such diet sugar and potatoes a Is by no no means efficient since it falls fails to include many of ot the es essentials es- es about which I have written written written writ writ- ten so much in this series o of ar ar- ar- ar tides Although bread has been called the staff of life It Is far tar from tram being be be- be ing Ipg an ideal food Indeed some bread Is a poor food except when eaten Caten in conjunction with other ther foods Very few people subsist on bread alone White bread contains too few or too poor proteins Whole grain bread contains roughage and more vitamins than white bread but bu still is short o of being a complete complete com corn food Addition of ml milk Ic to bread serves ser to r raise is the rs r's content content content con con- tent of calcium and of ot important vitamins Remember Remember- that bread means different things in In different places Th There re are the scones scones of J af of France e the f Poland and nd the AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican br bread ad untouched b by human hands bands Modern American bread is made by machine It has Ms an established composition It Itis is a s sensible food It Is rich in carbohydrates and proteins It It provides mineral salts alts and some som vitamins The committee e eon on foods of the American Medical association has approved th the following statement on bread I Ii 11 Bread Is our outstanding outstanding- source of ot the tho largest single need in the balanced diet diet food food energy 2 Bread is a most economical sri aO source r e of f food there energy energy there Is Isal almost al no waste in white bread as asit it itis is 96 per cent digested 3 Bread often is incorrectly called a fattening food lood The fact that bread is high in food energy does does' not mean mean that it In itself will produce overweight Control of weight depe depends ds solely on the food energy content of t. t the tho diet as a n whole not noton on any specific food in tho dI diet tu T TODAY'S D YS Y'S HEALTH nEwrn QUESTION Q What causes white spots on fingernails I I have been told several times Umes that they are a re result re- re suit sult of ot stomach trouble but bilt when I have stomach trouble the spots dont don't appear and when they do appear my mysto stomach is not bo bothering bother bother- her her- lug ing me A. A White A.-White White pots spots on the nails are caused by any injury or disorder der Ider Jh that t interferes with the nutrition nutrition nu nu- nu- nu of the tho root of tho the nail nalI They s sometimes es also follow any illness that weakens a person 1 t Junk clunk Little t Ue boys Cys who collect collect scrap metals for forthe the few pennies they may ear earn do not realize that they are part of a dollar billion-dollar indus Indus- try Few other people do for lor that matter This figure however however how how- ever represents the size t p f the Industry in industry industry In- In based upon the salvage and reuse of all sorts of ot scrap met met- als This significant fact is brought out by Philip H. H Smith writing in the current Scientific American Scrap happens to be the biggest thing in steel today In fact there are certain mills which operate continuously on a l large rge production production production tion schedule solely upon scrap not one pound of ot virgin metal be beIng being being be- be ing used This growing industry is composed of thousands of or small dealers and hundreds of big ones who operate Independently but who in the aggregate form forni forma a closely knit organization Its sole sale function is to keep the metals h in circulation It collects a vast array of products sorts sorts them grades them sluices them into great surface mines ready for use again in the manufacture of new pr products uc s. s Until quite recently m making metals go go round and round was relatively simple That was was' b be before before be- be fore the many complex alloys had been developed f for r so many varying varying vary vary- ing uses The existence of so many alloys promises to change the whole situation for tor alloyed steel cannot be separated easily Jn into o its components nor can it be graded readily for tor special uses H Heterogeneous collections of ot different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent steel alloys arc are I therefore usable only in such things gs as asI I fences where the particular components corn corn- p p do not matter f Besides feo ferrous s metals a number nuni num num number ber of of others oth are important In Inthis Inthis this refuse reuse market Copper opp r be being beIng being be- be ing virtually indestructible is one of ot the most important and is continually continually continually con con- going back into new production production production pro pro- to the extent nt of third of the total annual al copper prod production Certain other metals such as zinc and tin arc are mostly of the home type and little reaches the reclamation Lead does docs not return to scrap In proportionately proportionately pro pro- as great amounts as copper due e to it its many dispersing uses It goes Into paint pigments foils folI bullets and gasoline antiknock antiknock antiknock anti anti- knock compounds and never comes back The author of ot this article concludes concludes concludes' concludes con con- with tho the prediction that once rice the alloy problem m Is Js solved scrap metal may become our national national na na- na- na resource Number One |