WHOLE-MEAL BREAD.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19110, 20 September 1927, Page 3

WHOLE-MEAL BREAD.

! . ~ " • * ~. .. EXPERIMENTS ON BATS. (raou OUR. OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, August 13. In the current issue of the.'"Lancet" ■is: an. interesting contribution to '• the controversy, on; the value of whole-nieal bread as compared with white bread. It will be remembered that as a counterblast to .Sir William Arbuthnofc Lane and others, a number of medical men and ■ women published a signedstatement that white bread was not harmful, and that the B vitamin was found in the yeast used' in it. Dr. M. J. Rowlands,. writing from the Kniglitsbridge Laboratories, Sloan street, S.W.-, declares that .cer-, tain statements are made by the advocates' of white bread which do not coincide with experimental findings, .and adds "Within the last few years, I have carried out, at least 400 feeding .experiments myself; and I have been allowed by Professor •■Drummond and- ' Professor Plimmer fo see the results of their feeding experiments, and" for the life of me I cannot understand why there should be any doubt whatsoever as regards the value of vitamin B in nutrition. • Simple Tests, "The tests are very simple. They have been carried out by many experimentalists; they have been published over and over; yet there comes on the scene in the form of a manifesto-that oar diet, using white bread, is perfectly safe. Why does not a committee choose either Professor Drummond or. Professor Plimmer to carry out under the _ observance of ' three well-known ; physicians a test with feedings on white bread and feeding on whole-meal bread? < ,j

| "I, personally, am unable'to keep j my rats alive longer than five weeks •on a B-defieiency diet. If I add -two per, cent, of wheat- germ to their diot iny animals live almost indefinitely. IJiis surely, is ample proof that white bread is deficient in its vitamin content."