Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — Eating Dessert First Would Be Direct Step Towards Malnutrition [ARTICLE]

Eating Dessert First Would Be Direct Step Towards Malnutrition

By H. J. PARSONS.

Kansas Gty, Mo.

-A scientist has advanced the theory that dessert eaten before instead of after the meal will diminish the desire for food. This probably is true, but would it ultimately be conservation? Would it not be«a direct step toward malnutrition ? A person may eat sweets and ‘‘spoil his dinner,” as it is said, but a few hours after dinner he will be haunting a pantry. The sweets possibly will allay hunger, but they surely will not lessen it • We do not eat primarily to satisfy hunger. We eat to provide our bodies with material to build up the tissues broken down in the course of our daily actions. To build up muscles one must have a definite amount of protein and he cannot continue without it. It is known sweets and sugar,’while very necessary along with the other food, contain practically no protein. . To follow the plan the scientist proposes would be deceiving ourselves into believing we do not need food. The inevitable result would be we would awake a few hours later to the fact that “someone had been deceiving us 4 ” X,.-'