22 Lancastcr Farming. Saturday. September 20.1969
Many Old Wives Tales
About Pork Are Exploded
Many old wives tales about
pork weie exploded Wednesday
by medical expeits and nutntion
ists inteiviewed in a fact-loaded
coloi film making its public de
but befoie lepiesentatives of the
communication' media at a lun
cheon at the Lake Shoie Club in
Chicago
Chief among the fallacies le
THEIR THIRST
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AUTOMATIC
LIVESTOCK
FOUNTAINS
Lester A. Singer
“Lancastei County’s Only
Dealer Specializing In Spiayer
Sales and Seivice”
Ronks, Pa,
gal ding poik the expci ts said, is
that * it is haid to digest.” that
it is too fat.” that it is not good
foi you when you arc sick, and
that it should be left out of re-
ducing diets
Not so, asserted the authorities He said theie is no more i ea
rn the film. "New Facts About son to take poik out of the diet
Pork - ’ than theie is foi eliminating
! Those inteiviewed by Floyd other meats
iKalber. television newsman and Di. White said that not only
icommentatoi. weie Di Philip L is caiefully tiimmed pork ex
i White, of Chicago, secietaiy of tiomely low in total satin med
|the Council on Foods and Nutn- fet” but “outianks all othei
I tion of the American Medical meats in thiamine Thiee and a
[Association. Di Fianz Ingelfin half ounces supplv a man with
Igei, of Boston, noted gastioen- P 6 peicent of his daily needs of
Iteiologist and editoi of the pie this nnpoitant B vitamin This
. stigiousNew England Journal of same s.zed portion piovides an
medicine Di William Dai by, of aoult man with 45 percent of his
Nashville Chaaman of the AM A daily piotem need
'Council on Foods ard Xutntion Regaiding weight ieduction
and Dnector Division of Xutu- diets. Dr Rowe commented - Re
tion Vandeibilt Un.veisity and cent analyses show that the poik
IDi Doiothv Rowe ot Hamson ve today has less fat and
|bing Va Chanman of the Diet moie piotem Theiefoie, poik
Uheiapv Section Ame.ican Die ir t es as well as beef and veal
tetic Association and Dean of v- j ien calones are being count ,
Home Econom.cs. Madison Col- ec! >•
lege
Discussing digesti'oilitv the
dcgiee to which digestne juices
and enzymes change ioods so
1 they can be absoibed by the body
Di Ingelfingei said
‘ In this sense, poik, including
e\en its tat content is highly
digestible m fact it is about 98
peicent digestible’
Many people, he said, aie con
vinced that fat is indigestible,
and “as a xesult many digesti
bility pioblems aie in the head,
not the stomach
“Every physician has patients
who insist they cannot eat food
that is fued oi that they cannot
eat poik The tiuth is that pork
can be lean Depending upon the j
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cut and prcpaialion. the fat con
tent of a cooked lean poition of
poik can be as low as nine pei
cent ’’
Dr Darby asseited that be
cause of its high concentiation of
several kev nuti physicians
itgaid poik as a desuable pait
of many special diets "such as
those foi peptic ulcci, diabetes.
di c eases of the liver, and in
guiatnc and pediatnc condi
tions wheie it is impoilant to
maintain a good supply of high
quality piotein."
Di Rowe pointed out that
cooking pioceduies too, have
changed foi the new poik
Housewn es in the past thought
thej had to cook poik to an
intei nal tempeiature of 185 de
g'ees 01 moie foi roasts Now,
she said, the lecommended in
teinal cooking temperatuie foi
poik ioasts is 170 degrees
As for tuchmosis, a parsitic
disease fiom infected meat, Dr
Dai by said that from a medical
standpoint it is “a clinical rauty
in the United States ”
The film was pioduced by the
National Live Stock and Meat
Board, the National Poik Pro
ducers Council and the Amen
can Meat Institute
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Red Rose Open House
Over 200 local icsidents of
the Quarryville aiea and agri
cultural community were pic
sent Saturday, Septembei 6
when the newly foimed Red
Rose Faim Service. Inc. of
Quanyville. held it’s Open
House Manager Aithui Lea
man and his crew showed the
icnovated mill with the latest
in mixing equipment and bulk
feed handling All was “spic and
span” throughout the premises
Friends and neighbois were
served refreshments by the
Quanyville Fne Dept Ladies
Auxiliary
Pait of the display was a
lineup of livestock dauy
Apply Lime In The Fall
For A Better Crop
Next Summer
\
Fall liming assures proper limestone distribu
tion in the soil, ready for spring planting. The
freezing and thawing of winter aid in the
process of limestone dissemination. So, why
wait, correct your soil deficiency now by liming,
and reap a bigger harvest next summer.
MARTIN’S LIMESTONE
Blue Ball, Pa. 354-4125
cattle, beef steers, cage layers,
swine, dogs and horses, all Red
Rose Fed.
The door prizes created much
interest and the registered St.
Beinaid puppy was won by Wil.
ham Hogg, Quairyville Other
dooi prizes were won by the
following (from Quarry ville
unless stated otherwise) Rich,
ard L Adams, Darlene Heir,
Melvin C Boyce, Ken Russell,
Oxford, Harold Mendenhall,
Christiana, Holly Russell, Lan
castei, Linda Fisher, Eleanor
Vollratte, Willow Street, and
David LeFever, Strasburg Also
Donald Herr and Emma Russell
of Lancaster won prizes
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