Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1916 — COW GREAT CHEMIST DECLARES DR. HURTY [ARTICLE]

COW GREAT CHEMIST DECLARES DR. HURTY

State Health Secretary Puts His 0. K. On Ice Cream As Food. — w Indianapolis, Dec. 7. —“Ice cream is one of the very best of foods,” Dr. J. N.- Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, said Wednesday at the convention of the Indiana Ice Cream Manufacturers’ association here wheh discussing the food value of the delicacy. <ln part he said: “The cow is a great chemist. It makes milk, a wonderful food, especially for growing children, and i; makes cream, a wonderful delicacy and an excellent food for young and old. The, things that can be m'ade from milk and cream have taxed the ingenuity of chefs and cooks, ice cream makers and food fans since tims out of mind. Yet the cow that makes this wonderful product doesn’t know anything about it, .and us human beings, the chemists and such smart fellows, who know all about how milk is made, can’t make it.

“Ice cream is one of the very best of foods. Yet it is a food we must eat in moderation. That is true of any food. If we eat immoderately of ice cream we are very apt to suffer in proportion. Probably the best thing I can say for ice cream is that it should be eaten at meal time. Though it is one of the tnost nourishing foods, it is one of the most enjoyable. In Our Puritanical habit of thought, we think that a thihg that is palatable and delicious must necessarily be under ban as a food. When a food is both nourishing and delicious, then it is an ideal food. Ice cream is particularly good for growing children, and from what I know of growing children they will be particularly good for ice cream.” s JU <Dr. Hurty then said he knew of one case of illness in which a woman was kept rtlive for two years on ice cream.