YOUR MONEY'S WORTH
Sheridan, Mary
Your Money s Worth By MARY SHERIDAN IT WAS GELETT BURGESS, I think, who said that if no one had any troubles, every person would be poised; for "troubles"—fear, worry, hurry, and so on —handicap...
...Mineral Oil And Losing Weight Two more valuable hunks of advice came out of the nutrition conference at Chicago...
...One hunk was a warning about the mis-use of mineral oil...
...The press—strange, isn't it?—didn't have much room to report what they said...
...And the second hunk of advice is a tip on losing weight...
...Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...The enriched and fortified products now available— flour, cereals, bread, milk, and so on—make the job of serving vitamins in meals all through the year not too difficult...
...The most important vitamins are abundant in everyday foods: A is in dairy products, carrots, egg yolks, and green leafy vegetables...
...And most medical experts agree that if every one were nutritionally well-fed, there would be little or no need for vitamin pills...
...Radio, magazine, and newspaper advertising of vitamin preparations in various combinations is profuse, bewildering, and gagging...
...Whatever, the time spent for meal planning, and the extra money that fresh fruits and vegetables cost, the result is better and cheaper than trying to buy health via vitamin pills...
...That state of affairs is "arousing* much concern" among doctors, according to Dr...
...The nutritionists tell us that three ordinary good meals a day—meals where you stoke your furnace with milk, fresh and raw fruits and vegetables, eggs, and lean meat, and avoid rich pastries, fats and sugars, and highly processed food—are good insurance of a well-balanced vitamin intake...
...Edward H. Rynearson, a consultant in the Mayo clinic's division of medicine, is to eat less than the body burns up...
...Vitamin B 1 is found in liver, lean pork, kidneys, beans, cereal grains, and the germ and outer coatings of rice...
...And most experts agree that people are better nourished if they get vitamins from their source—food in its natural form...
...That's all: eat less than you need...
...Mineral oil, which is so much used as a laxative, and still more unwisely is sometimes used in so-called slenderizing salad dressing, dissolves the fat soluble vitamins in the bowel and interferes with their absorption," Dr...
...The idea that vitamin pills are a short cut to health —or a cure-all for nutritional deficiencies—was squelched at the "Nutrition in Wartime" Conference in Chicago recently by Dr...
...Russel M. Wilder of the Mayo clinic and chief of the civilian food requirements branch of the War Food Administration...
...Vitamin E is abundant in fresh meat, egg yolks, wheat germ, vegetable oils, and milk fat...
...Wilder warned...
...Those Vitamin Pill Claims Poor people, advised Dr...
...Buying them— and they aren't cheap—and using them with the notion that they will prevent colds, pump you full of vitality, and eliminate the necessity of eating well planned meals is quite another thing...
...This is very simple...
...Enough to drive you, gratefully, to spinach...
...Drugstore windows are full of them...
...just follow directions...
...Vitamin pills to supplement a diet, on a doctor's orders, are one thing, and I'm obviously not talking about that use of them here...
...Those wonderful claims made today for the vitamin pills were made 30 years ago for "rejuvenating hormones," he added...
...Certainly we have gone all-out for vitamins— the easy way...
...When Americans take on something, we tend to go all-out...
...I don't relish the position of agreeing with Dr...
...Science doesn't pretend to have all the answers yet on vitamins, but we do know that they are essential to physical well-being...
...A. J. Carlson, University of Chicago professor emeritus of physiology, and Dr...
...Morris Fishbein, since I disagree with many of his extra-curricular pronouncements, but his warning against the miraculous claims of the vitamin pills is one I'd like to see pasted up on every drugstore counter loaded with the stuff: "What we actually know,about vitamins compared with the claims made for these substances, singly and in combinations," said Dr...
...The only successful way to lose weight, said Dr...
...One-a-day, Abbott's, Mead's, Parke-Davis, Squibb, Stearns, Upjohn, Vitamins Plus, and this brand and that brand: if you don't want to buy a bottle of pills containing Vitamins A, B, and C, why the druggist will be only too glad to sell you another bottle, maybe one of the intricate B family combinations, with some niacin thrown in...
...Better And Cheaper A little checking now and then tells the cook what's lacking, probably the intricate B's found in liver, kidneys, and wheat germ, or maybe fresh vegetables...
...Vitamin D, produced within the body by action of sunshine on the skin, is in various fish liver oils...
...Fishbein, "represents the antithesis between a brick and the pyramids...
...for "troubles"—fear, worry, hurry, and so on —handicap man's control over his life...
...The vitamin makers, you'll remember, spend a lot of money for advertising...
...Medical authorities and nutritionists and health experts have educated us about the important role of vitamins...
...B 2 is in liver, wheat germ, lean meat, milk, tomatoes, and spinach...
...Vitamin C is abundant in citrus fruits, tomatoes, and many other fruits and vegetables...
...Mineral oil, since it's not rationed, is being widely used as a cooking oil...
...Carlson, and I don't see any reason why middle-income groups need waste their money either, should spend less cash on vitamin mixtures so that they will have more to spend on good food...
Vol. 7 • December 1943 • No. 49
