WHOLEMEAL BREAD
Attention was drawn by the Hon. A S. Malcolm in the Legislative ■ Council yesterday to the need for encbura"«in" the use of whole-meal flour.. : He asked whether the Government had seen a statement in the " Evening Post" of 23rd September, quoting Sir W. A. Lane and Sir Harry Baldwin, to the effect that " the use of white' bread lowered the resistance of disease - and favoured the onset of cancer," and that the actual fact is. that the..bread and flour supplied to pur- people has • been, deprived of all its vitamines and most of us proteins and valuable mineral.salts." This is why we have so. large a- C 3 population- Stop the pernicious extraction of the .best parts of the wheat and the vital statistics of the nation-will go up with, a bound! Here is a promising field of activity-for the Ministry oi Health. Mr Malcolm asked "the: Government whether it would take steps ■to -prevent the over-refining of flour, and encourage the use of whole-meal flour. ■ I .f^.the Government has neither the authority nor the inclination to interfere m the direction suggested," SVft)*^ (Sir/
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 76, 26 September 1924, Page 7
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186WHOLEMEAL BREAD Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 76, 26 September 1924, Page 7
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