PERIL IN WHITE BREAD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 September 1924, Page 9

PERIL IN WHITE BREAD.

FAMOUS DOCTOR’S WARNING

S»ir William Arbiithnot Lane’s warniafc tie 11SP of white bread'.is one ol the causes of c-aneer and other diseases is hijl.v endorsed by other medical specialists in diet. In an important paper recently read to the Royal Society of Medicine, advocating the use of healthy, wholemeal bread’ and noticed in the Daily Mad, Dr’ Aslett Baldwin gave some stiikin<>precis of the danger of white flour In . Newfoundland and Labrador’, where m winter aiicl spring many people are obliged to live largely on white bread, beriberi frequently occurs, though when the bread' was made from wholemeal flour the disease was unknown. Beri-beri was unknown in Norwegian ships before 1894. Itc frequent occurrence since .coincided with an alteration of diet, which comprised a change from wholemeal rye biscuits to white bread. fn Great Britain there are 3,000.000 children in the elementary schools requiring dental treatment, this detei in-rating being coincident with the introduction ol white (lour. Calcium and phosphates, which aie present in wholemeal flour, are most important is toothbuilders. After . reciting a number of diseases directly or inlirectlv attributable to the use. of white flour, Dr.. Baldwin concludes: The use of fine white bread and flour is one of tire- chief causes of the deleneiation in the physique and health of civilised communities . . . Modern '■enstipation is clue to the removal of fche aperient properties of grain from the flour. These reside in the geim and the bran, which should be retained in the flour, but it must be finely ground to avoid indigestion in those people whose digestive powers have been weakened by the use of white bread and flour.