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Show Millard County Progress Annual Farm Supplement, Fillmore, Utah 84631, Friday, April 16, 1982 Page 3 Junk Foods Unfairly Labeled DUAL-PURPOS- "iimk Many I'ikhIx" arc iiisl as mitriiimiv av am oihcr foods, and manv foods" hare an health pci oil nutrition cvpcri said at the annual Brigham Yomij! l;ni. crisis Agricul tine Week svmposiiini n n i ti si i fja bI reputation, a recently. 1 he symposium, sponsored by the College of Biological and Agricultural Sciences and Benson Taft the Fzra I ood and Agriculture Institute, featured speakers from agribusiness and educational institutions. Dr. Howard Appledorf. of the Institute of Food and Agriculture Science at the University of Florida, said the tag that has been hung on him by headline writers--frienof the junk food undeserved. But junkie--i- s he said it is true that many foods have been unfairly d labeled We junk." a raised food of generation illiterates," he commented. "All foods have a role to play in the diet, and our job as educators is to teach people how to Fit the foods they like into their diet if they so choose." He said for most healthy, normal people, standard rules on nutrition can apply. But some think those rules were "handed down on Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments." Guidelines are useful, but have monolithic, generalistic approaches for diets rub many of us the wrong way. he said. Appledorf criticized past efforts by federal legislators to prescribe nutritional guidelines that would have steered Americans toward a standardized prudent diet. A set of goals developed by a Senate Select Committee, he said, created a tremendous the backlash among agricultural community because they really were a white paper for a monolithic American Vegetarian diet. It was, he said, an attempt to push Americans into a third world diet. But there is nothing magic about the way people in other countries eat. While it is true some of them do not suffer so frequently from diseases that fell many Americans, the third worlders fall prey to illnesses that are relatively uncommon here. In Japan, the diet has become more westernized over the past 50 years. In that time, life expectancy for the average Japanese has gone from the mid 40s to the mid 70s. Appledorf pointed out that preservatives not only make it possible to ship and store food, enjoying it long after the harvest, but they also prevent spoilage that leads to botulism and other dangers. food He criticized who would prevent activists the use of preservatives and necessary processing. Their efforts might have people to the going directly cornfields of Iowa to graze, he commented, "but 220 million Americans elbowing each other to get at the plant doesnt make much sense." Because we process it, somehow were accused of destroying what God put in earth." Appledorf described the a I lorida experiment in which 24 foods from a health food store were compared with 24 similar items from a grocers store. The chief differences were in the price: the health foods were approximately three times more expensive per ounce. "We found many more spoiled foods in the health food store because of much poorer packaging and lack ol preservatives." Seven of the health foods also contained detectable amounts PRODUCTION International Harvester has introduced the industrys first integral corn and soybean air The new planter planter. utilizes an exclusive method for planting either narrow row corn or soybeans with the same machine. The 800 Series Early Riser CdrnSoybean Special plants eight 30 inch d corn rows. It converts quickly and easily to become a 13 row soybean planter that plants at IS inch row spacing and provides skip rows for later chemical application or cultivating without damage to young plants from tractor tires. 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Fach contains substances that have proved carcinogenic in some tests or are present in greater quantities than allowed by food and drug laws. he said. Fortunately, Mother Nature doesnt have to label her food. Another of the speakers at the symposium said scientists have done a poor job as advocates of their own work and must do more to show people that agriculture is science in action. Dr. William F. Hettg. deputy vice president and dean of the Institute of Agriculture. Forestry and Home Economics at the University of Minnesota, commented that "agriculture is both art and science. I would suggest to you further that it is the mother science." 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