2i8 Miracles Ahead! 



boast of many people that they don't "eat to live"; they "live 

 to eat." But too often the man who "lives to eat" does not eat 

 to live at the peak of his health. 



Dr. Victor G. Heiser, former staff member of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, agrees with other scien- 

 tists that physical degeneration is the price modern man has 

 paid for his present type of "progress." According to Dr. 

 Heiser, recent experiments with rats fed the diets of two sec- 

 tions of India illustrate vividly that "man is what he eats." 

 One group of rats, fed the diet of the strong, hardy people of 

 northern India, reached an age equivalent to fifty years of 

 human life without disease. A second group of rats, fed the 

 diet of the stunted and disease-ridden people of southern In- 

 dia, were subject to thirty-nine diseases. 



Uninformed Buying 



Modern practices have processed the life-giving and health- 

 giving vitamins and minerals out of our foods. Now it be- 

 hooves the scientists to restore these vitamins and minerals to 

 our foods, and the educators to teach us to demand these ele- 

 ments in what we buy. 



Henry Borsook and William Huse, in their Public Affairs 

 pamphlet Vitamins for Health, give this striking example of 

 how "uneducated buying" can contribute to the vitamin de- 

 ficiency of the nation: 



"Recently a Pasadena child brought the following sixteen 

 items to school in his lunch box during a week: bread, butter, 

 potato chips, chicken, bacon, mayonnaise, apple, banana, fruit 

 salad, cooked peaches, strawberries, raisins, jelly, tomato, let- 

 tuce, and cake. The child's diet was deficient in calcium and 

 phosphate. It was adequate, without being abundant, in vita- 

 min A and B . 



"Another child brought only six items in the course of the 



