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NATIONAL NUTRITION WEEK
“Nutrition saves” is the
theme of National Nutrition
Week. It’s being celebrated
nationally this week, March
3 to 9.
This theme seems to make
sense. For it’s certainly true
that with rising food prices
your knowledge of nutrition
is more important than ever.
And certainly for families
who have, one way or
another, suffered financial
setbacks, the nutritiousness
of the food they buy with
limited funds is a vital
consideration.
Planning Is Essential
In the name of Nutrition
Week, there is one main
point I’d like to make. It has
always been important to
plan your family’s meals
carefully if you are to be sure
everyone is getting needed
nutrients. But as the budget
tightens, planmng becomes
absolutely essential.
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Doctor
in the Kitchen*’
by Laurence M. Hursh, M.D.
Consultant, National Dairy Council
Just as people now have to
plan when and where they
will drive on the gasoline
they can get, so must you
plan more throughly before
you get to the supermarket.
In the past, perhaps you
pretty much filled up your
shopping cart with anything
you wanted at the time. Well,
that’s the route to inefficient
buying. That’s when you can
unthinkingly pick out items
that may offer little but
calories. Or more expensive
cuts of meat when less ex
pensive ones will give you
more nutrition per dollar.
So you must plan.
Your shopping list should,
of course, provide your
family with foods from all of
the four food groups the
milk and meat groups, fruits
and vegetables, and breads
and cereals.
When buying fruits and
vegetables, be sure to plan
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for green leafy and yellow
vegetables as one category
of that group, citrus fruits
and tomatoes as another,
and then other vegetables
and other fruits such as
potatoes, beets, cabbage,
cauliflower, celery, corn,
lettuce, apples, bananas,
cherries, berries, grapes,
etc.
In fact, it is in the fruits
and vegetables groups that
you can plan extensive
variety to keep your meals
interesting. Also to take
advantage of seasonal price
advantages, and the fact that
these foods are offered fresh
much of the time, as well as
frozen and canned.
More For Your Money
Examples of more
nutrition for your money
include fresh or canned
potatoes rather than potato
chips, orange juice or milk
instead of soft drinks.
Substitutes for meat include
poultry, fish, cheese, eggs,
beans or peanut butter.
Paarlberg says We Aren’t
Running Out Of Wheat
“Consumers do not face a
bread shortage,” days Dr.
Don Paarlberg, director of
agricultural economics for
the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
“Charges that we wul not
have wheat to make into
bread are simply not true,”
he said.
Dr. Paarlberg pointed out
that the USDA estimates
that the nation will have 178
million bushels of old-crop
wheat left at the end of the
marketing year on June 30-
plus several hundred million
bushels of new-crop wheat
that will be harvested in May
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Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Herr,
Quarryville RDI, have just returned
from a week long visit to Tahiti where
they were guests of J I Case Com
pany. The Herrs won the trip for
and June. The U. S. con
sumes about 530 million
bushels of wheat a year for
food uses.
The 1974 wheat crop is
currently estimated at 2.1 -
billion bushels-roughly four
times our domestic food
requirements, Dr. Paarlberg
said.
“Our wheat exports are
extremely important to the
nation in generating export
earnings,” Dr. Paarlberg
said. “These earnings are
helping to pay for the in
creased costs of oil imports,
along with the raw materials
and low-cost consumer goods
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Mar. 9,1974 —
performance in the area of sales,
service, and promotion of Case
tractors. Their business, located at
Quarryville, is operated pnder the
name of A. L. Herr & Bro.
from overseas that are
helping to keep inflation
from running completely
away with us. If we cut off
wheat exports, we would
raise the cost of our imports
-and our cost of living.”
Each week the USDA
publishes a report on the
amount of wheat on ex
porters’ books that has not
yet been delivered. “A large
proportion of these reported
contracts are for ‘unknown
destination’,” Dr. Paarlberg
points out. “That usually
means an exporter has
contracted for the wheat, but
has not yet resold it to an end
user. The wheat in these
contracts is still for sale to
the highest bidder, and it is
physically located in the
United States. A baker or
anyone else who is afraid of
running out of wheat can go
out today and buy it back
simply by offering the going
market price.
“Many of these contracts
for unknown destination 6
may actually have been
made in the first place
because the importers were
afraid the U. S. government
would impose export con
trols, allowing exporters to
ship only a stated percent of
their total contracts. About 7
million bushels of these
contracts to unknown
destinations simply
evaporated from our last
export report, and we expect
this kind of evaporation to
continue.
“That big 1974 wheat crop
is our best insurance for
moderate wheat and bread
prices,” Dr. Paarlberg
concluded. “We have also
removed restrictions against
the importation of wheat, so
that if wheat should become
critically short, it can come
in from other countries. In
addition, the Soviet Union
earlier agreed to defer
delivery on about 40 million
bushels of old-crop wheat
until the new cron year.”
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