Best Bedrock Diet.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 October 1914, Page 2

Best Bedrock Diet.

PROFESSOR SHOWS HOW FOLK MAY STARVE WITHOUT HUNGER.

For the man who had come flown to bedrock living wholemeal or black bread was better than white, said Professor Leonard Hill at the Britisli Association in a statement on food stuffs. Vitamines were not contained in white bread, and this, perhaps, was not so serious a loss to middle-class people, who had other sources of nourishment, but it wns all-important to the workman and his family, who had to subsist on bread and tea and jam. Some sterilised articles contained vita mines in diminishing quantity, others, such as canned goods, after prolonged boiling, contained none— they had all been destroyed. A man could live in prison on blaci; bread and water in the Middle! Ages, but nowadays he could not' live in prison on white bread and water. *ugar, as now used, had become a mischievous article of diet, and man v of the people of Great P.ritain leading sedentary lives were using forms of diet which led to chronic semistarvation and non-nutrition.