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Show HOW TO BEAT PBICEOF SUGAR ! Quit Eating It Is Advice of Professor, Who Says Sugar's Unnecessary BY GEORGE B. WATEDS. N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, May 3. The best way to combat the high prices of sugar su-gar is to quit eating it, according to Dr." Carl Vocgtlin, professor of pharmacology, pharm-acology, Government Hygienit Labora-toi-y. At tho present time the people of the United States are consuming $2,-000,000 $2,-000,000 worth of sugar a year, and if the prices goes to 30 cents a pound, which Is likely, they will be ating it at the rate of $300,000,000 worth of sugar a year, and if the price goes to 30 cents a pound, which is likely, they will be eating it at the rale of $3,000,000,000 a year. To dispense with this sugar would save ?26 a year for each person, or ?10 for each family of five. To those who eat it in the form of candy it! would save much more, as good candy sells for from ?1 to $2 a pound. The best authorities in the United States, including Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, recognized as one of the world's greatest great-est food experts, saV refined sugar, used for sweetening, Is not only unnecessary, un-necessary, but injurious to the system. sys-tem. "Sugar is a luxury, and not an essential es-sential food," says Dr. Vocgtlin. When taken into the system sugar is burned into carbonic acid and water and in those forms eliminated. The only thing it generates is heat and energy. The indirect harm done by sugar is to destroy the appetite for the forms of foods that, should be eaten, such as fruits and vegetables. These foods; contain sufficient sugar to furnish necessary heat and energy, and at the-samo the-samo time they supply proteins, fats,1 mineral salts and vitamins. Starches are broken down'into sugar and thereby there-by furnish the body all the heat and energy necessary." nn |