Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1914 — Failure of Artificial Food. [ARTICLE]

Failure of Artificial Food.

That it is possible to live on artificial food, or at least on the concen trated extracts of certain staples, is a comqion belief, and it has even been predicted that some day our diet will consist of tabloid food. One might live for a short time in that unsociable way, but recent investigation of diseases like beri-beri, scurvy and pellagra, which are almost certainly caused by a deficiency in the diet, prove that such a life would be one of disease and could not last long.