“BLESSING IN DISGUISE”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32415, 3 April 1944, Page 6

“BLESSING IN DISGUISE”

RATIONING AND DIET BENEFICIAL EFFECT CLAIMED The opinion that possibly ration books were “blessings in disguise" was voiced by Sister L. Evans, a visiting dietitian, when recently speaking in Wellington on the errors in everyday diet. .

“It has been authoritatively stated that during times of war and national emergency, when once-refined and devitalised goods are quantitatively reduced. people maintain a higher standard of health than in more prosperous time,” said the speaker. It was surprising that so many otherwise intelligent people were content to live in an intellectual fog when it came to keeping lit —which she designated as the primary concern in life. Animals knew how to select their food, but man displayed grave ignorance when it came to food'Selection. Citing the dis- I crepancy from a nutritional point of view between white and wholemeal bread, the speaker disclosed that 00 per cent of the population selected white bread. Wheat was one of the oldest of cereal foods. Wholemeal broad was rich in phosphate of potash and lime, while white bread was deficient in them. The whole wheat grain . was rich in mineral elements in their proper balance and proportion. Ono- . fifth of the weight of wheat consisted . of bran, but this small portion contained three-fourths of all the sahs. i and nearly all the cellulose of the on- ; tire grain. [