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Show ? f -tit. .. Doctor in the Kitchen by Laurence M. Hursh, M.D. Consultant, National Dairy Council A FARMER'S ADVICE magnesium, chloride, calcium, sodium, and iron. "I found that we need 19 minerals. This drink had them all and 10 more besides. "Then it struck me! The pill peddlers have been pushing a protein pill lately. Could it be . . . ? I found 10 different proteins pro-teins (amino acids) we need for good health. This drink had them all plus another eight. "Just to be sure, I called a doctor doc-tor and asked him his opinion of the product. He told me, 'It favors fa-vors growth and development in youth, confers health and vigor throughout life and postpones old age.' "I tried a dietitian and he praised it. I got similar answers from a dentist, nurse, beauty expert, ex-pert, and a food editor. "They all agreed it was the most convenient, pleasant and effective ef-fective way to fill the nutritional gaps of ordinary diets and to promote pro-mote growth, health and energy. "This stuff must cost plenty, I thought. Would you believe it? The price in my area is about 90 cents a gallon. "They call it milk. A Farmer" About a year ago, I was perusing perus-ing a newspaper and ran across a letter to the editor of a Wisconsin Wiscon-sin newspaper. The letter not only intrigued me for its interesting interest-ing writing style. Its subject matter mat-ter also seemed to offer a great deal of common sense. The points are made in the letter in simplified simpli-fied language, but as a generalized statement I can find nothing in it to seriously criticize and much to recommend it to you. So here is the letter: "Dear Editor: "Looking around for something to take the place of a daily, dreary vitamin pill, I discovered a liquid product that has all the known indispensables for good health, plus a few extras. "After making sure it had the regular A, B, C, D, and E vitamins, vita-mins, I checked out the other fairly well-known ones: riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine, pantothenic acid and folic acid (all in the so-called so-called vitamin B complex). It had them all. "Then, I turned to the minerals. I found this drink had every single sin-gle mineral known to be necessary neces-sary to the human body! These include phosphorus, potassium, |