ARTIFICIAL FOOD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4871, 31 August 1925, Page 2

ARTIFICIAL FOOD.

SERIOUS EFFECT ON THE PEOPLE LOWERING OF VITALITY. Sir William Milligan; the famous surgeon, opening a food exhibition at Manchester recently, said the tendency of people to live on prepared and more or less preserved foods was shown by the great increase in the frequency of dyspepsia, gastro-intes-tinal disease, and intestinal lethargy. The use o f these foodis, Sir William suggested, might be found to have an important bearing on the incidence of cancer. Our food supplies, were'i largely devitalised, denaturalised, devitamised, and doped and drugged. Our chemists, “the great slayers of mankind,” no doubt in response to public clamour, had been trying to discover how food could "be kept by preservatives and cold storage till it was literally mummified; they had been trying to discover how 1 it could be coloured by dyes, aniline and mineral ; and how it could be predigested to make it suitable for weakened digestions and edentulous jaws. Bread was more often than not deprived of the all-important bran, bleached and treated with chemicals to make it easily baked. It was doubtful if wholemeal bread could be procured at all. The absence of pure and natural food caused vitamine starvation, sb lowering the population’s power of resistance that most of its members were undergrown, ilLdtfvcloped, and of even lests than average brain power.