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Bread is no longer slow poison. This momentous reversal of the teachings of U.S. dieticians has been made by Columbia's Professor Henry Clapp Sherman, dean of U.S. nutritionists, who for years has warred against bread as the No. 1 staple of the American diet. In countless articles on nutrition Professor Sherman has crusaded against our enemy, the wheat loaf, backing up his written views with pictures of laboratory rats who, when fed on white bread diet, lost their hair, teeth, whiskers, and eventually grew peaked and died...
...John Clapp Robbins...
...John Clapp Robbins...
...Certain chemical elements of the blood, such as calcium and the lipids [fats], show no appreciable change with age, in contrast to the known alteration of the chemical content of the tissues, especially the arteries." One way to forestall aging, some chemists suspect, is a judicious diet. Dr. Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia found that when rats were given increased amounts of either calcium or riboflavin (vitamin 62) or vitamin A, senility was deferred and they lived longer...
These are among the cheerful points of Aztec history mustered by Archeologist George Clapp Vaillant of the American Museum of Natural History in his new book Aztecs of Mexico (Doubleday Doran; $4). Assembling the wealth of new historical evidence dug up since William Hickling Prescott finished his great Conquest of Mexico in 1843, it will muffle the sighs which four generations have sighed over "the tragic destruction of a great culture by lustful Spanish barbarians...