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...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...
...niacin (to prevent pellagra). Such flour need not be "whole wheat," which includes the harsh outer coating of the kernel. Professor Sherman recommends the "longer-extraction" or "wholemeal" flour which discards the coating, but utilizes about 85% of the wheat kernel. It is the basis of the British "national loaf...
Russia, whose need is even greater. Restaurants have not served real butter for months, and portions of margarine are half the size of a postage stamp and nearly as thin. Bread is still plentiful, but last week a National Loaf was introduced, consisting of one-quarter white flour and three-quarters whole wheat. Nearly all milk is reserved for children, grownups being allowed only three pints weekly...
...Ministry of Food forecast the early appearance of "black" bread. To cut wheat consumption by 10%, a wholemeal loaf, containing more byproducts, will be introduced...
Bread was priced at $15 a loaf in Athens last week and there was no bread. There were no potatoes, no figs, no raisins, no tomatoes. There was, in short, famine. The sight of wasted men & women faulting in the street was so common that no one thought anything...