Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from formally accepting the $100 million loan offered by the U.S.S.R. in 1956. But Indonesia has accepted 4,500 Russian jeeps (purchased with a $6,000,000 credit), and near Djokjakarta 40 East German technicians, backed up by a $13 million East German credit, are rebuilding a war-damaged sugar mill. Neither deal has proved very popular. Style-conscious Indonesians find the rough-finish GAZ jeeps unimpressive, and the sugar-mill project is already two years behind schedule. "What those so-called technicians are doing I don't know," complains one annoyed Indonesian official. But, angered by U.S. hesitation...
...basement of Harvard's School of Dental Medicine, Biochemist James H. Shaw and his assistants worked for more than ten years with cages full of white rats and cotton rats, with sugar-rich and sugar-free chow, with test tubes and dissecting boards. The twofold aim: to find out how certain sugars promote tooth decay, then to find a way to forestall it. The Sugar Research Foundation, Inc., set up by the sugar industry, bankrolled the project for a total of $57,000. Now, in the Journal of the American Dental Association, Dr. Shaw reports his findings...
...Tooth decay is caused only by food remaining in the mouth-proved by rats through stomach tubes. Even sugar, fed this way, causes no decay...
...Sugar, in solution, causes little decay; granulated sugar (as sprinkled on fruits and cereals) causes much more...
...various kinds of sugar, fructose (from most fruit), glucose (from grapes and starch foods), sucrose (table sugar from cane or beets), lactose (from milk) and maltose (from beer) are all precipitators of decay. So is a high-starchdiet, even when relatively low in sugar. It does no good to substitute raw for refinedsugar; but blackstrap molasses causes a marked reduction in cavities...