"LIFE 'FAT."

Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2648, 17 November 1919, Page 2

"LIFE 'FAT."

The secretary, Nat ional Dairy Union of America, Mr. \V. T. Creasy, has issued the following statement : "Recent investigations carried on by Dr. Mendel, of Yale, Dr. Osborne, of Connecticut, and Dr. McCollum, of Wisconsin University, reveal the fact that butter and milk contain certain feed' elements that are necessary for the growth of the young. Experiments were carried on by the above noted scientists by feeding a diet of fats similar to those used in the manufacture of oleomargarine to young animals. It was found that their growth in a short time was stopped. By changing their diet to milk, or butter, they resumed their normal condition of growth..

"Milk fat is nature's food, intended for nourishing the young. It might be termed 'life fat,' as it conies from the milk of live animals, while oleomargarine fats are "dead fats,' or fats taken from dead animals.

"Tho most nutritions part of butter is the volatile fatty acid Content. Butter contains about eight per cent., of 'the latter, while oleomargarine does not contain any except the little that Comes from the milk used in its manufacture.

"For growing children, milk fat is a necessity ; as an article of food,and oleomargarine cannot take its place.'