Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1940 — Page 8

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FRIDAY, DEC. 20, 1040

Need of ‘Morale Vitamin’ for National Defense Sparks America’s Bread Revolution

(This is the fifth of a series of articles on the new bread for defense).

National defense is the spark that has set off the bread revolution. In tl.e midst of plans to build more airplanes and ships and guns, Americans have realized that the + man-power of the nation must also be built up to top fighting strength. Scientists who for years have warned of the chronic famine, the vitamin starvation that afflicts mil-

lions of Americans, have stated that the kinds of foods which will remedy the famine will also build strength and morale for defense, One of the newest pieces of knowledge about vitamins is the evidence: that thiamin, the old vitamin Bl, should change its alias from “anti-beriberi vitamin’ to “morale vitamin.” This is one of the vita-

niins. that will be put into thé new bread and flour. The evidence that gives thiamin a right to:the new name of morale vitamin came from diet experiments at the Mayo Clinic.

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healthy young people there were put on a diet otherwise adequate, but lacking in thiamin. These healthy persons developed, among other symptoms, moodiness, sluggishness, fear and mental and physical fatigue. “The states of mind and body observed in these subjects,” comments the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association,

{“were such as would be least desir-

able in a population facing invasion, when maintenance of stamina, determination and hope may mean defeat or successful resistance.”

Equally striking were the results of another experiment in which increasing the daily ration of thiamin above the accepted adequate amount increased mental alertness and almost doubled the capacity for physical work. This shows that putting the vitamin into flour for toast, sandwiches and dinner rolls will not only protect millions from vitamin famine but give extra strength to those already getting adequate amounts of the vitamin from other foods. Thiamin, the morale vitamin, ‘and others of the vitamin B group are

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Thiamin {s obtained from a selected portion of the wheat germ obtained in the milling process and put back into the flour by another milling concern. This company also adds another of the B vitamins and the minerals, iron and calcium, to its flour. This flour has won the approval of the American Medical Association’s council on foods. These flours and breads and others that have appeared within the last year, are the millers’ and

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The number of these breads and flours, however, gives the housewife a confusing problem. Which is best? In her dilemma, she is turning to scientists and government bureaus for advice. {Food and Drug administrators are glso faced with a problem. Their j is to protect the public from adulterated foods. The new flours and breads may be

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