OATMEAL AND RICKETS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1925, Page 3

OATMEAL AND RICKETS

A PROFESSOR'S TITS IS. LONDON, .March 00. Ilitkerio a eoliimeii |.ieee of .cilice e.iven to jiai'ent.-; of youiie eliildreu has Leeii: “If you want your yirl* and boys to yrow biy and strmiy yive 11: ni plenty of oatmeal." 'limit tolviee may have to he revised in the liyht ot experiments carried out on puppies by Pi a lessor l'..luard Mellanby at Sheffield University, the results (it which nra yiven ill a report issued to-day by the .Meiiie.d Pese.'ir.li Con neil.

Professor Mellaiii., states limit ol tile cereals le led ‘‘oatmeal has pre- . eminently Ihe worst iulllieuee on butte loriiiat ion." In other words, youny animals fed on oal in. :.I are far more subject to rickets than Ihnsa fed mi other .-übsliiiii i". 'I lie cereals tested included u nite ||(ml. ".hulciue.il Hour, natmeal. maize, barley, polished and unpolished rice, wheat yerni, yround oats, yrotits, and rye. Of these, "oatmeal, yroats, or ynumd oats held by far the most inloiise action" in proib.leiliy rickets in the animals, and while Ilnur had the least action in that respect. Rue i ' fii| led a n IHI criuedi it • ""it i"ii. Tin- action of wholemeal tl.air \\t" sine! " i* i tb-D e.f v. bile tl"i"‘. I.r i 1 I.(’ Its OF I- AIS AND I' IS i I The evil (If,'its ol oatmetd wef" .‘lo!! v oviTeoliie by ihe 11- ol cnl-liver oil. which is ti p,.iwciTiil anl i-raeliil ie. ITyy yoke was abo of yreat vain,-. Profess,,l- .Mellanhy suyyests that line races of men have been retired on diets of which util nmal h.rins a I a rye pari b"cau~‘ “the diet ol lb,"" peieile also inelitd 'il most I nods rich I a 111 i-r:u hit ie vitamin, as. for example milk. eyys. li-li of the tally va/'iciy. iiieludiny h. rriny. salmon, nmekerel." In tropical count ri" -. where rice, maize, till,l millet arc hiryely eaten, the ‘• -. 1111 1 i h t is no ihmM am iniperl-

anl factor in alilnyniiisiuy their <letrinii'Ultil influeiioi'." iur Ibe , mci imi'iit s slnuveil that if cither tl.e animal il- , |f or ibe eeretil mi v I« ■• ■ it was led Were expos, ,| lo nil rtt-vi'det rtniia- , ions the ill-efieet s | rodiaod by the cereal were to some extent reilledi d. What the s; |! ,s ttsiit •■ • is in oatmeal Hoi! ,a uses riokels i- not stated, bat il is probably assneiaied with the fatly a-ids. Il was prot.d. Imwever. that perfect biiie formal ion call be obtained even when In rye quantities o| ('anneal are consume,!, provid 'd the remainder of tiie dial i- to leqiia I