Notes from The Science of Eating by Alfred McCann

Date:   2/19/2013 12:14:42 AM ( 11 y ago)

Notes from The Science of Eating by Alfred McCann


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The repair materials are at hand. They are found nowhere but in food, in food alone. No officer tolerates an unfit soldier. No business man tolerates an inefficient employe. No musician tolerates a jarring note. No physician tolerates incompatibles in his prescriptions, but in twenty-million homes in the United States to-day there is com placent toleration for food abuses that sap the stamina of the race



HISTORY OF WHITE BREAD


Dietician and radio show host Alfred W. McCann claimed that 400,000 children a year were sent to “little graves” because they were raised on white bread. Food pundits said that white bread could cause blindness and disfigurement. A 1912 article in a journal called “Life and Health” made the dubious claim that in countries where there was no white bread, there was no cancer. Bobrow-Strain writes that white bread was implicated in a slew of illnesses including “diabetes, criminal delinquency, tuberculosis … rheumatism, liver disease, kidney failure …” White bread’s fortunes sunk, and bakers, who preferred white flour in part because it was cheaper to mill and could be stored longer, were beside themselves.


http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/04/a_review_of_white_brea...



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