WHITE BREAD PERIL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2973, 10 December 1925, Page 3

WHITE BREAD PERIL.

WARNING BY THE KING’S SURGEON.

The whiter your bread The sooner you’re dead.

Sir Harry Baldwin, surgeon to the King, is taking a leading part in the campaign for the re-introduc-tion of wholemeal flour. Dr. Baldwin has delivered a number of lectures to expose the dangers of white flour bread

“The great increase of dental decay,” he says, “is due to the use of white bread, because it lacks the necessary elements for development of the teeth.

“When the miller takes away the germ from the centre and the outershell from the wheat he takes away the necessary vitamines, and the remaining white flour is mainly starch. When these vitamines are lacking, the teeth and bones are ill-formed and rickets are often thus produced. “The physical deterioration of the race is due to such errors of diet as this. Bread is the chief article of diet, but the bread supplied today is a delusion and a snare and is not worthy of the title of ‘the staff of life.’”

Sir Harry Baldwin suggests to the government of England the following steps: A tax on flour of lower than 85 per cent, extraction, the proceeds of the tax to be devoted to cheapening wholemeal flour. Education of the people by means of government leaflets. The total exclusion of white bread at all establishments under government control. July 30, 1924.