CONCENTRATED FOOD.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20272, 14 August 1937, Page 24 (Supplement)

CONCENTRATED FOOD.

EXPERIMENTS IN JAPAN. “ REVOLUTION OF NUTRITION.” “ Japan is paving tho way for a peaceful revolution—the revolution of nutrition.” This is what we are told in “ The March of Japan,” by Edgar Lnjlha, the young author, linguist, and traveller who has penned a story from his extensive lour of the Far East. Tho secret food laboratory In Japan is in charge of Professor Tadasu Saikl. governor of the Imperial Government lnstitulion for Nutrition, who broadcasts recipes for concentrated food, with tlie object of putting tlio nation’s dietary on a scientific basis and bringing it into line with the supplies at its command. Factories, schools, barracks, and whole districts should in emergency be provided for by one kitchen, ami Japanese should not

have to spend more than 2d a day for their three meals. Wages would be arranged to correspond. 'l'lk' laboratory of this amazing: professor, the author emphasises, is at once a mystery. New amt lilt now unheard of foodstuffs are being - stored there and will come, to the rescue in time of need. Scientific research has been developed with intensity and to : great lengths to calculate the degree of energy required in trades and professions. amt in the course of three years of experiment itrtOo people had to lie still for twenty-four hours without, if possible, moving a finger, shut up in Dr. Saiki’s apparatus for measuring human energy. These machines measured the calory requirements of the subjects, and by taking the average figure be was abb' to calculate the amount or energy required. Then the experiments went, further and the people were' studied in movement, the worker In heavy Industries, ttie tram conductor, the postman, the teacher. In Hr. Snllcfs opinion these individual experiments with different professions are forerunners of a new social order, and lie believes that at a time of national crisis wages will he regulated j according to calory requirements of employees. In building up his theory the professor has been careful to sc-' that Die 70.0nn.000 Japanese should not all have to eat, identical food, and he lias already provided menus for hOO • different meals. He lias collected noon different foodstuffs and by > s discovered bow much ealorv i-'we:- fhrv produce ill the human be iy. and from this data tie lias compet'd r»00 break fasts, dinners and suppers not costing more than 2Ad and - each supplying the requisite amount of calories. Tn compiling this remarkable and f ir-reaoliing policy. In - . >aiki has bad the assistance ni '-.<o scientists, while many student' who have passed through iiis institulMn h:,vo been appointed directors 01 * supplies throughout the empire tests have demonstrated that ehildrer "id adults fed on the Saiki principle.' ■ t'e Ihrixcd better and shown more '" : " t lo epidemics than those V':, nn " ,l1 lin, ' s - "bile Die Knipernr’« ' -'ben also cat Saiki’s bone-forming

Preparing for War Time. | tiiue" of*' 1 war. IMauLs r !,m| U ‘animals j which humanity had never used f..r j ! food have been analysed In see if limy j 1 cimlained nutritive value. "Sea sec-, I pellls” Have come within Ihe aml.it 1 of experimentation, tlmuyli the pro-; lessor was poisoned twice, in Ihe course of Ids research in lids direction. Knirrernry bread, made of straw and made of lean's, lias been ] ’ tested. Some 250 experts work i among plants and every plant that ■ grows in Japanese suit has its special i • index folder. All are charted and tile . | edible portions are shown in colour, i lin the snowdrop chart, for example, i 1 the bulk is .recommended and should | ■ I Japan be tlfrealeiied by famine or j ■ | blockade these charts will he repro- , | iHired hv the million and distributed | • by aeroplanes lo live furthermost j parts of Hie country. |