The National Malnutrition E-Book

F. A. C. S.

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• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Since the first use of the word "vitamin" the problem of nutrition has been more or less confused. With the discovery of new vitamins confusion increased. When minerals were added to the necessary articles required for good nutrition the bungling and muddling connected with pontifical pronouncements from supposed high places made it more difficult for anyone, doctor or layman, to get at the truth. The matter would not have been so hard to untangle had not the whole question been saturated with the poison of commercialism. The selling of bad food had become one of the biggest if not actually the biggest of business enterprises. The usual scientific discussions which always follow the introduction of new ideas in medicine were not allowed to proceed as usual in an unbiased way, but commercial interests began in a most insidious way to combat scientific fact with ridicule, endowed research (endowed in one direction), and other well tried and tested methods. Contents Introduction Our Dietary Needs Why We Must Have Vitamins Why We Must Have Minerals Our Dietary Intake (What Do We Get) What Are The Results Of Our Dietary Errors How Widespread Are Deficiencies Cancer — Its Treatment And Prevention Nutritional Treatment Of Anemia What Must Be Done?

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Our Dietary Needs

Why We Must Have Vitamins

Why We Must Have Minerals

Our Dietary Intake (What Do We Get)

What Are The Results Of Our Dietary Errors

How Widespread Are Deficiencies

Cancer — Its Treatment And Prevention

Nutritional Treatment Of Anemia

What Must Be Done?

The National Malnutrition

D. T. QUIGLEY, M. D., F. A. C. S.

Published by

The Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Copyright D. T. Quigley

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1st digital edition 2017 by David De Angelis

INTRODUCTION

Since the first use of the word "vitamin" the problem of nutrition has been more or less confused. With the discovery of new vitamins confusion increased. When minerals were added to the necessary articles required for good nutrition the bungling and muddling connected with pontifical pronouncements from supposed high places made it more difficult for anyone, doctor or layman, to get at the truth. The matter would not have been so hard to untangle had not the whole question been saturated with the poison of commercialism. The selling of bad food had become one of the biggest if not actually the biggest of business enterprises. The usual scientific discussions which always follow the introduction of new ideas in medicine were not allowed to proceed as usual in an unbiased way, but commercial interests began in a most insidious way to combat scientific fact with ridicule, endowed research (endowed in one direction), and other well tried and tested methods. As the purveyors of good food were practically unorganized and had smaller investments, errors were allowed to go unchallenged, the general confusion on the subject of nutrition increased and the sabotage on the health and well being of the American people proceeded apace. Under the stress of war the will to better health has been developed. The bad qualities of certain foods were admitted. It was conceded that white flour and sugar were producers of the most dangerous diseases. An unsatisfactory compromise was made and the false statements foisted on the people to allay general unrest. In effect the bad food purveyors now said: our product was bad but now it is good. As a matter of fact white flour has been improved very little, sugar not at all and canned goods have the same reduced amounts of vitamin B that they always had, (the B largely killed by heat).

The only good flour is whole grain flour and as this must be fresh, (it spoils in a few weeks) the white flour milling business would be affected in an adverse way if fresh whole wheat flour were to become universally used.

In human nutrition we must aim at the optimum as in the inevitable national conflicts which test the highest in physical and mental development, only the optimum will prevail. The profit minded individual who prates about the American diet being satisfactory as it is, digs his own grave as he opens the way for our enemies.

CHAPTER I

OUR DIETARY NEEDS (What do we need?)

The requirements for the maintenance of life in every living cell are to be obtained partly from the air we breathe, partly from the water we drink, and partly from the food we eat. There is the possibility of variations or changes in any of these three which may inhibit the optimum life processes in the living cells. Air may be contaminated with smoke or gas or dust. Water may be contaminated with typhoid fever germs or amebic dysentery. Food may be contaminated with disease germs, or may fail to contain the necessary elements for providing the highest type of resistance to disease germs.

In the life of the ordinary person, the most common disease-producing factors are from food deficiencies. In the past it has been thought that contaminated air and water have a good deal to do with the production of disease, and while this does occasionally occur, it is not to be compared in importance with the amount of disease that is produced by errors in diet.