WHOLE-MEAL OR WHITE BREAD?

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17756, 17 September 1927, Page 17

WHOLE-MEAL OR WHITE BREAD?

Interesting Experiments

SOME ILLUMINATING RESULTS

Ijy Cable—Press Associati.>i>— Copyright. Sydney " .Sun '* Scrvu't. (Received September 16, 7.30 p,m.) LONDON, September 15. For the purpose of proving the contention that wholemeal bread is better chan white, the “Daily Mail” invited Ur. Rowlands and Dr. Ethel Browning to experiment with 20 rats, hall, ol which were led on wholemeal, and ball on white bread, varied with casein, cod-liver oil, dried blood, and fish meal. Dr. Browning undertook the feeding. He did not allow the hoppers to be emptied. Those supplied with white bread were always finished and wanting more. They consumed 1990z5. in 34 days. Those given wholemeal had never finished their supplies, they consumed 77ozs.

The rats fed on wholemeal at tho opening of the experiment weighed 840 grammes, and at tho close 131.6. The others weighed 952 grammes and 1176 grammes respectively. Tho whol&meal-fcd rats were sleek and healthy, hut one white bread-fed died, and the remainder were listless, and were losing hair and apparently dying. As a further experiment, the rats wero fed with a deficiency diet, which showed 1 that when they wero sinking they refused white bread, but ato wholemeal avidly.