Show Graham Bread Named for Lecturer on Temperance Graham bread received Its Us name nome from Sylvester Graham 1851 1794 an American lecturer on temperance temperance temper temper- ance anre and food reform He lIe was born at Suffield Conn After studyIng study study- Ing lug at Amherst for tor a time he entered entered en en- the Presbyterian ministry In 1 1820 He lIe maintained that a vegetable vegetable ble diet was al ns Incompatible with a desIre desire de do sire for tor stimulants and as part of his hla temperance and food tood reform campaign he not only advocated total abstinence from meat but also recommended the eating of ot bread made of ot or unbolted wheat flour flour that Is ii flour dour in which all the wheat kernel except the rusk Is used In InA A Defense of ot the Gra Gre ham System of ot Living published In la 1835 ham Graham wrote t Of toOt wheat bread there are three varieties In n the first all the bran braD brans Is II s separated In the second only the coarse and In fn the third none at all The bread made of flour from which will all the bran has bas been separated separated sep lIep- Is that most commonly used but bread made mode of ot flour from which none of ot the bran has been separated ed Is II the most wholesome Graham Is often orten referred to as aI the Inventor or Introducer of Graham bread head He lIe was neither for tor whole wheat bread was the first wheat bread made Grahams Graham's name Dame became associated with It because he be Included the article In n his dIetary die dIe- tary regimen which at one time had bad many thousands of ot adherents adherent throughout the United States The system was called Graham and Its adherents oils oUs N News w. w II |