BATTLE OF BREADS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 9

BATTLE OF BREADS

L WHOLEMEAL V. WHITE

WIN FOR THE FORMER

EATS FURNISH TEST

lUnited Press Association.—-Copyright.) (Sydney Sun Cable.) LONDON, loth September. For the purpose of proving tho contention that wholemeal bread is better than white, the "Daily Mail" invited Doctors Bowlands and Ethel Browning to experiment with twenty rats, half of which were fed on wholemeal and half on white bread, varied with casein, codliver oil, dried blood and fish meal. Dr. Browning undertook the feeding and did not allow tho hoppers to be emptied. Rats supplied with ■white bread always finished, wanting more. They consumed 199 ounces in 34 days. Those given wholemeal never finished their supplies and consumed 72 ounces. The latter at tho opening of the experiment weighed 840 grammes, and at the close 1316. Tho others weighed 952 and 1176 grammes respectively.. . The wholemeal-fed were sleek and healthy, but one whitebread-fed rat died, and tho remainder were listless, losing their hair and apparently dying. As a further experiment, rats were fed with a deficiency of diet, which showed that when they wero sinking they refused whitebrcad but ate wholemeal avidly.