By Dr. Royal Lee
Summary: Dr. Lee illustrates the nutritional dangers of a diet of processed foods through the famous example of New York Senator W.P. Richardson's hog farm. Richardson, after shifting the diet of his pigs from whole corn and whole wheat to stale white bread and rolls, found the health of the hogs' offspring to suffer tremendously. "The young pigs developed at only half the usual rate of growth and were subject to many diseases normally foreign to the pig species, particularly pneumonia," Dr. Lee writes. In addition, the sows "had small liters or aborted." Dr. Lee notes the similarity between the symptoms of these malnourished pigs and those of the disease-ridden crew of a German warship who'd been reduced to a diet of primarily white flour and sugar. "You do not need to be a professor of biochemistry and medicine," Dr. Lee opines, to figure out that "lowered resistance caused by a deficient diet is apparently the real cause of most disease." From Let's Live Magazine, 1958.
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