The Wrong Kind of Carbohydrates?

Let\'s take bread as an example of the \'staff of life.\' But is it?

Dr. Agnes Fay Morgan of the University of California stated on April 18, 1951, that modern production methods rob bread of 30 nutrients. Think of it! You are eating bread under the mistaken idea that it is giving you a certain amount of nourishment, yet it is 30 nutrients poorer than the bread your ancestors baked in their kitchens. All the advertising hullabaloo about \'enriched\' flour, which began during World War II in an ill-planned, not-wholly-honest attempt to raise the country\'s nutritional standards, did succeed in restoring 4 out of the 30 missing nutrients, but still leaves you shortchanged of 26, provided your household depends on baker\'s bread, or you bake your own from white flour. Which brings us to white flour, the principal ingredient of our nutritionally robbed \'staff of life.\'

It might interest you to know that wheat has not always been the bread grain. Up until the beginning of the past century, in many provinces of France the peasants made their bread of chestnut flour. Other countries made their breads of rye, barley, millet and oat flour; while maize (corn) was the staple grain of the New World and still is in many Latin-American countries. When white flour was first introduced in France several centuries ago, the powder merchants used only the finest quality of flour for powder to be dusted over the exaggerated coiffures of the dandies and aristocratic ladies. What a pity for the health of the civilized world that all milled white flour could not have been confined to this uncommon \'outside\' use, instead of being allowed to get inside to \'gum up\' the works.

Nature never created a white grain of wheat or rice, nor a white grain of cane sugar. Such improvements were left to the ingenuity of modern processors. To produce the \' \'masterpiece\' of white flour (enriched or otherwise), the mills sift and bolt out three-fourths of the minerals (plus undetermined amount of vitamins B-complex and E), leaving only the white starchy cells and refined gluten of the wheat. So-called \'enriched\' white flour is but a makeshift-an appeasement of public indignation arising because of the commercialized ruination of good grain by stripping it of its natural food elements. I frequently tell my lecture audiences to compare the lunacy of preparing a fine roast, then throwing it away and serving the water used to rinse the roasting pan with the equal idiocy of milling the food values out of wheat, and then foisting the residue onto the public as white flour, a commodity that enters into every American meal. The same sort of criminal processing takes place with sugar cane and sugar beets which are milled and refined down to sickly white crystals devoid of all food values except pure starch.

White sugar is 100 per cent carbohydrate, containing no proteins, no vitamins and no minerals. It contributes absolutely nothing to your body except an energy which could be far better obtained from other food sources. When too much white sugar is used, your tendency is to neglect other more nourishing, youth-promoting foods.

What the processors do to rice and to corn is equally maddening. They strip off the outer husk of the rice, leaving a wholly starch product; and they rob the wonderfully nutritious corn of its heart to make profitable com oil and corn syrup, selling you \'corn meal\' that is little more than a starchy waste product. If undeniable proof is wanted of the harm done to a people by a high-starch diet, I have only to cite our good friends, the Brazilians. For many generations, the lower-class Brazilian living in the areas near the equator has subsisted mainly on rice, bread and mandioca-all of them high starches - usually washed down by nauseatingly sweet beverages. Life expectancy among these people has never been high, and they are frequently made fun of for a \'laziness\' that is actually a deficiency disease brought on by protein starvation. I have seen more than one of them lying sprawled out asleep in the street or on the dock, as though they had dropped right where they were at the moment when their extremely limited supply of energy gave out.

Especially noticeable was the difference between the vitality and ingenuity of the Brazilian stevedore and that of the dock hands in Uruguay and Argentina. The starch-stuffed Brazilian was lethargic, and slow to comprehend commands^ or the need for changing his routine; whereas the meat-eating Uruguayans and Argentineans who handled our ship and the near-by vessels did more than twice the amount of work, with a minimum of direction from their bosses. Many of those poor, protein-starved Brazilian stevedores must have been men in their early twenties and thirties, surely none past their middle forties. And yet each moved. with the careful slowness of a man who had reached the time of life when he must begin to show more consideration for aging muscles and brittle bones. There was none of the snap and zip about them that I saw in the dock workers in Montevideo or Buenos Aires. It made me tired just to watch the slow, I do not believe I can make it motions of the tropical Brazilians as they went unwillingly, or so it seemed, about their jobs.

Here in our own country, the National Safety Council warns automobile drivers against overeating on starches before and during trips. That stuffed feeling which is the sure result of a too-starchy meal (rarely can anyone eat enough protein to produce that gorged feeling, since the appetite is satisfied much quicker with protein foods than with high starches) cuts down your mental and physical alertness, and leaves you wanting to \'doze,\' an extremely dangerous desire when one is behind the wheel of an automobile.

The average driver has the habit of stuffing himself on candies, cake, pie, sandwiches and sweet drinks, all easily accessible to the motorist at every roadside stand; often he substitutes these all-starch items for regular protein meals.

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