Whole-Meal Bread.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1896, Page 3

Whole-Meal Bread.

- . — «i (Christchurch Press.) That wholemeal bread grows in favor ia most evident. There is something infinitely cheering in the readiness with 'which the home-makers of Christcburch have adopted the brown bread cult. Long may they remain faithful to it ! The wholemeal loaf appears on most tables, and those who weakly cling to tho poverty stricken white bread are happily becoming fewer day by day. How they can persist in its use when they know that animal life cannot be sustained on a bread devoid of every nutritious principle, passes comprehension. Experiment after experiment has proved abundantly tnan an animal fed on white bread alone has died of starvation, while another of the same kind fed on whole- meal bread alone has remain in perpect health in the same time and has even fattened in the process. What could be more convincing than this? Yet there is a class of mind so enslaved by custom that no amount of experience can influence it. Not one word can be said in favor of white bread as a food, while much can be said in favor of the whole-meal bread. I should like to see the white loaf banished from off the face of the earth, and its place taken by a life sustaining bread. Then doubtless the next generation would consist of healthy well- nourished men and women who would retain their teeth, eyes and hair as lons as Nature originally intended they should — for life, instead of a score or so of years only.