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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 91, 14 August 1942, Page 5

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NO MORE GASTRIC ULCERS

;(Prepared and issued by the Health Department) ; A community entirely free from gastric ulcers; is something we can scarcely hope for. The next best thing is to free as much of the community as possible from liability to gastric ulcer. Once of the answers to this problem is wholemeal bread. The' development of the wholemeal bread habit in our younger generation will, one authority estimates, save them from at least half the gastric ulcers which help to make life miserable for this generation.

Wholemeal bread contains, among other things, Vitamin 81. Ordinarily the average NeAV Zealander doesn't get enough of it. Every little movement Ave make means a certain number of body cells wrecked. Vitamin Bl is essential to their replacement. It is continually draining away from us, and it has continually to be rcmoA'ed. Without enough of it, all cells h»A T c their efficiency seriously impaired. If it is in too short .supply oA'er a period, stomacli troubles are liable to occur. Recently a group of medical men deliberately set themselves out to see Avhat actually did happen Avlieh | they Avent short of Vitamin 81. Thenintake Avas about half the required, quantity, just enough to keep them from getting symptoms. In a few days they began to feel _ tired, lose their appetites, become constipated, and suffer from other consequences that Avere of a dclinite medical interest. The experiment confirmed the belief that the absence of this small, but important, constituent of unrefined foods Avill keep a person beloav par, and in time Avill get him all nice and ready lor a real illness.

Wholemeal bend is not a lad. Besides this vitamin, it contains three times more iron that ordinary "white bread, and there are also in it 'substances which facilitate the preparation of the stomach ready for its absorption, iron is needed to make red blood, and red. blood prevents anaemia.