WHOLEMEAL BREAD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22099, 3 May 1935, Page 15

WHOLEMEAL BREAD

Sir, —I would like to ask " ExBaker " is he aware that some years ago, when white and brown bread were tried on mice, 'those fed on wholemeal bread were healthy and strong, while those fed on white sickened and died. A similar group were not fed at all, and these outlived the white-bread group. Is he aware that poultry cannot live on. white bread, though they thrive on whole grain? I know a lady who is a thorough believer in white bread. She and her family are always ailing, and she has now given up tryin<T to keep fowls. Sho fed them on stale white bread, bought cheap from tho baker. She tried many times, but they never lived long. Nature designed both mice and men (and fowls, etc.), to deal with the whole of the grain, and when the food faddists eliminated part of it the balance was upset, and health has suffered thereby. Firstly, what is known as roughage is needed for health, and secondly, a too great proportion of starch causes too much uric acid in the system. All this, ot course, applies to normal people, not to those with digestive disabilities, unable to deal ivitli bran, i know many doctors prescribe wholemeal bread for growing children —not just for elderly people. With regard to the old people, who have eaten white bread their lives and kept well, I once knew a tough old pioneer, who was drunk most of the time, and once when he slipped down in the mud and a bullock waggon went over him he was little.the worse. He lived to a great age, but this does not prove that everyone could bo always drunk, or get under waggons and not sutl'er for it. Some people are exceptionally toughv and strong, but the average person pays sooner or later. For one thing, we should not hear nearly as much about appendicitis if everyone ate wholemeal bread. Another Wholemeal.