Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — Food Value of Sugar. [ARTICLE]

Food Value of Sugar.

A striking paper on the "Dietetic Value of Sugar” appears in last week's issue of the British Medical Journal, by Dr. Willoughby Gardner. Roughly speaking, the world's consumption of sugar in the last fifteen years has doubled, while in Great Britain it has trebled* per head in forty yean. Another interesting point is that the Eng-

llsh and Americans stand easily at the head of the list as the sugar-eating nations. Dr.. Willoughby Gardner establishes the fact that sugar is a potent creator of energy and maintainer of stamina. This, he contends, is not only proved by laboratory experiments, but by the case of the dateeating Arabs, health of the sugar-cane-eating negroes, and the result obtained by Alpine climbers, Arctic explorers, athletes and German soldiers fed on a special diet Dr. Willoughby Gardner’s general conclusion is that the increased height and weight and the improved health of the English people in the last half century are largely due to the increased consumption of sugar.