Word: gerson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Army fills the belly it marches on was described in scientific detail last week by a Viennese food expert now in Manhattan. In the New York State Journal of Medicine Dr. Max Bernhard Gerson presented a summary of military food facts gleaned from almost two dozen German medical journals...
Three Squares. Once the best men available were recruited, said Dr. Gerson, the Army spared no pains and expense to build them up. Each German soldier gets about 3,800 calories a day, the same number of calories required by a ditchdigger. The daily menu...
Soldiers get little meat, but that is often nutritious heart, liver, kidneys, lungs. Since no restrictions are placed on food for the Army, Dr. Gerson thinks that meatless rations are not due to economic necessity, "but [to] the newer knowledge of the science of nutrition." German military doctors, for instance, claim that vegetarianism cures neuroses and depression, makes for greater efficiency. But U.S. scientists generally believe that vegetable proteins are poor substitutes for good red meat in building new body tissues. In the U.S. Army, soldiers get about 10 ounces of meat...
Food v. Pills. The Germans, says Dr. Gerson, believe that "a dollar will buy more vitamins in the market than in the drugstore." They do not add artificial vitamins to food, nor are Nazi soldiers fed vitamin pills. German doctors learned this lesson from an experiment in the Swiss Army, where soldiers were fed an artificial vitamin preparation (vitamins C and B. mineral salts, iron, dried yeast and a gelatinous sugar). Results: "Poor...
German nutritionists have found, says Dr. Gerson, that doses of artificial vitamins and minerals may act against each other. Example: large doses of vitamin A may drain the body's reserves of C, produce scurvy. The German soldiers get their vitamins in butter, rye bread, yeast extract, soybeans, vegetables, milk...