Show HEALTH NOTES NOTES- By Sly DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of ot the tho lc 1 al Association nii l of ol H- H Ily cell Hy-cell gela tho Health MagazIne ai There are authentic reports report or of numerous numerous persons who have hive fast tast- tasted fasted fasted ed 30 days dayn without harm and other records of men who have tasted fasted as long IonS as 60 50 days das with with- without without out apparent harm The body can unquestionably maintain Itself without food rood for tor a considerable length of ot time The agItation concerning tho the bread and water diets In Nebraska lit lit- In-cates In cates the lice general lack of or under under- understanding under standing of ot what hat the body act actu- actu actually actu actually u- u ally requires tor for V Its continuous existence In the the first place bread Itself varies In la different communities A bread made with white whit lour flour yeast malt extract sugar short short- short ning and nd water will not have haTO the food value or of o a bread made macic of othe the same santo constituents with the addition of the am amount of milk required by modern bakinG standards V Our government gO permits the title milk bread broad If it third one or of orthe the liquid used in making the bread V Is Is- milk A bread brend made with five tI pounds of sweetened condensed milk per cental of flour contains about one and I a half ounces of ot milk to a pound ot of bread Bread may be made mad of whole Wheat and other elements of roughage and or of o vitamin supply that are ar lacking In bread made from white flour lour It 13 possible to prepare bread with wheat germ added to such an extent ns as asto to provide 12 13 tines times the tho amount of or wheat germ con con- con contained tamed in whole wheat bread These points are ar emphasized be- be because be because cause they are aro vitally Import Import- Important important Important ant in fn determining the th amount or of time that a person might live successfully on bread and water ater alone CO COMPLETE DIET IMET DIETA IMETA DIETA A complete diet as has been emphasized In this column con con con- consists slats con ot or the various protein ole ole- ele element meats ment mineral minerai salts silts vitamins sugars and fats tats A milk bread made according to to modern standards while not an especial especIal- especIally ly Iy complete food Is relatively complete It lacks In the amount or of calcium and to some seine som extent In the tho amount of ot the Import Import- import int nt nt vitamins It If a suffIcient of ot milk is III I incorporated orated Ith V lUt the tile bread it may even cven app S apply vp- vp ly Iy these deficiencies It If the bread breall is ma made mado o with nuts nuts nuts-ind 1 raisins or with much wheat germ rm these wilt will supply other de Ce- Ce de This point is mention mentioned ed ed particularly because there Is no reason why a person ersoll might not live liv for tor almost an n indefinite perio perIod on a sufficient amount or of such bread and water On the tho other hand modern re- re research research re research search Indicates that the absence or of the various of o the tho mineral salts alts or or of o the tho other special constituents or of o a complete diet may result In la serious symptoms toms toms tome dependent entirely the person concerned and the amount of or the tho deficiency TheTO The oi Is I a 1 areal real difference between complete starvation and such uch partial star star- starvation as H is I here hero concerned Modern bread brend having a 1 scientific ad- ad established composition Is Isu Isa Isa u a sensible food tood Unfortunately not all ot or the tho bread In the United States Is up tip to the tho same name stand stand- ir ltd tn l It would 1 bo be Interesting to now the kind of or bread used In Ia he Nebraska br bread ad and water water lIto liet and nd to tho the results of ot this legally Ily controlled experiment intent |