Show WHITE FLOUR FOOD A lUie little learning Is a I dangerous thinea Drink c deep p or taste not the spring Th There r shallow drafts rAn Intoxicate the brain brala bran And Ad drinking largely sobers ober us ua a again AIn AInA A recent magazine article written byan bran by br byan an expert on food matter maten misquotes the tho first line of ot the above aboY and then lne gives particular point to toe the truth o otho of tho the quotation by grossly misinterpreting misinterpret misinterpret- ing a clean cut scientific e demonstration tion ton of ot a disease resulting from tho use usa of ot sophisticated food rood matter mater Tho The article artcle In question queston reads aa as a follows follows fol tol- fol- fol lows We are told about biochemical properties of ot wheat olal and as proof we wo are referred to the ravages of ot beriberi beriber beri bun bert beri ber from eating hulled rice This Is ia Jugglery juggler something on the tho order ot of the magician Kellar Kelar To be specific ben berl-berl Is a disease that has no connection connection con con- cn- cn necton with wih the whole wheat whet and ad white whiRl flour question It I Is as remote as It can be Berl Ben Is Ie a form torm of nervous nerous I disease that has affected the tai natives of ot Asia who live lve mainly on on rice and of late years yeas the introduction of hulled rice has increased the dis- dis j ease It I has been found that when rice ricel polish wis was used as food along with wIt the tho rice the disease was wa lessened In ln In ml j From this it has been argued that that the rice hulls huns contained nourishing substances which had been removed from the rice in polishing This looked looked very plausible From these facts It was waS argued that wheat bran brn must also coni con tam tain nourishing substances and they they should not be removed from the wheat In the manufacture of ot flour four For For- Fortunately however the subject of bert beri berl ben has been worked out scientifically and Funk of ot the Lister Llster Institute has baa shown that tho disease is caused by by some toxic action of ot rice protein This should show the danger of beIng being be be- Ing Influenced by the tho exaggerated accounts accounts accounts ac- ac r counts of ot white bread and hulled rice starvation statements which have no foundation in proved facts White bread Is safe food tood Polished rice is safe food as scientific Investigation has proved The discerning reader will wi note that the matter mater In the body of the article artcle controverts the finding stated In the closing paragraph quoted The whole truth is as follows Casimir Funk of the biochemical de do- de department Lister Institute of Preventive Prevent Prevent- lye ive ie Medicine discovered that a I substance substance sub sub- sub stance could be recovered from the matter ground from the surface of ot rice rice- in polishing it which would In a few hours cure euro a disease known as poly poly- neuritis or berl ben Underlying every happening in this universe Is a law or on e. e and the same principle will wi be found foud J producing many widely separated results The statement JIM JIM- JIMno n no con con- cO that t CUO wu whole wheat and white flour four Is not strictly true because the same principle applies Der-berl Der Ben Berl-berl Is la caused by a mineral starvation and we know many diseases are caused by bythe bythe bythe the mineral starvation resulting from the too free use use of ot foods Including flour The writer wrier personally knows of I largo large rge flocks of chickens being being be be- ing killed kled by feeding them on demin 1 grain and of ot dogs kl killed d by by feeding them hem liem on meat 1 and white bread Ev Every ry physiologist of note states that tat the tho vitality of the the he Individual cell cel d depends on a free freo supply supply supply sup sup- ply of mineral 1 matter consisting of ot at t I least three elements Jt it J would be reasonable rea- rea then to expect some definite deleterious result from a diet composed com composed posed largely of mineral free matter matterand matterand matter and the fact that all al white bread cat eat cating cating ing peoples are greatly troubled with constipation may may be considered evidence evl evi dence to this belief belet Further evidence that white bread head Is not healthful is given by Sherman who states that washed bran fed to cows was fou found d to tobe tobe be constipating Indicating that the the to laxative property of ordinary bran and whole wheat products is dependent not not simply upon mechanical Irritation It I would bo ho as logical to state that tat while you might break your your heck beck ral fallS falU ing off orr a n thirty y foot brick brck house faBIng fallIng falling fall fall- Ing off of a thirty foot tot frame house over In the next block is safe because it I has ha no connection with wih the brick house II It is as remote as it can be That may be be but nevertheless the chances of ot breaking your neck are equal because because because be be- cause the principles are Identical The too free freo use of white flour four or of ot any other th r foodstuff no matter whether It I be by being processed or on by stupid cooking methods is detrimental to health |