12 — Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June* l.vi 974 ORGANIC By Robert Rodale The Myth Of The Balanced Diet ■ When a Seattle drug store recently ran. a- series of ads extolling the benefits of vitamin tablets, the Federal Trade Commission reacted quickly. It insisted that a series of “corrective" ads be aired on TV, stating, “There is no need for most people to supplement their diet with vitamins and minerals." Do we really live in a nutritional Utopia, where every vital nutrient we need is supplied atuomatically in our food? “If this were uncontested truth, written in stone, it might be possible to pass it over as just one more interesting news event,” remarked.the editors of “Advertising Age”. “But we are not all sure this description of the role of vitamins and minerals is so non-controversial that it should be in corporated into a FTC-approved corrective ad, and disseminated to the public as authoritative truth.” nutrients in the refining process and loaded with sugar? Or The Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human spongy whitehread devoid of the wheat germ and bran? Needs has evidence to the contrary. According to its study of American eating habits, there has been a significant decline your children consume frozen French fries, onion rings, in comsumption of protein, phosphorus, iron, vitamin A, potato chips, and canned fruit punches (containing up to 90 thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamins B 6 and 812, and other percent water), they may be getting their daily servings nutrients. fro* ll the fruits and vegetables group, but are they getting the Another study, conducted by Ohio State University and nutrients you would assume? involving 3,444 children in 12 northern states, revealed that a majority were not getting - enough iron. Even more Similar poor choices could be made from the other two significant was the conclusion of Professor Virginia M. groups, such as additive-laden, processed spread cheese Vivian, a home economist at that school: “Nutrient sup- (dairy group) and fatty, watery frankfurters (meat group), plements, primarily some form of vitamin, were widely And what about imitation bacon bits, pizza pie, food used. Without them, many children would have had diets and all those other modem concoctions that fall into the gray below recftnmended allowances in vitamin C, thiamin, and area between that standard food groups? vitamin A, although foods rich in these nutrients were readily It’s no wonder so many Americans are having difficulty available.” balancing their diets ... unless they take extra vitamins and In effect, the government is saying people don’t need food minerals daily. But don’t think of natural dietary sup supplements if they eat a balanced diet. “But we know that plements as “pills” or “drugs,” because they’re not. Food maybe 50 percent of the population doesn’t eat a balanced supplements are concentrated food sources, in handy tablet diet,” says lawyer and nutrition crusader James Turner, form. Here's a rundown of some of the mpst popular sup- Many people go astray by blindly relying on the time-worn plements: advice of nutritionists to eat foods from the so-called four basic food groups each day. Seventy-five years ago, before the advent of most modem food processing, such advice might have guaranteed a balanced diet. But what happens, for instance, if the food you select from the cereal grains group is one of today’s highly-processed, devitalized breakfast cereals, stripped of its natural Dutch School Natural Foods LARGEST SELECTION OF NATURAL FOODS AND VITAMINS IN CENTRAL PENNA. RT. 222, AKRON, PENNA. PH. 859-2339 LIVING Bone meal. Made from finely-ground, sterilized cattle bones, bone meal is an excellent source of calcium. It con tains both phosphorus and calcium in the best ratio for ef fective absorption-by the body. You can buy bone meal in tablet form, and take a couple with each meal. Brewer’s yeast. This outstanding source of B vitamins is available in two forms. As a powder, it can be mixed into soups or sprinkled on foods. But many people find the yeasty taste a bit strong, and so prefer to swallow tablets instead. Vitamin E. Many modem cereal products and baked goods lose some of their vitamin E in the refining process. Natural vitamin E is derived from vegetable oils, and comes in-small 'clear capsules or perles. Desiccated liver. For those who don’t like the taste of fresh liver, or don’t want to be bothered serving it several times a week, desiccated liver is a godsend. 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Modem refined diets afe often lacking in magnesium, good soumea.such.as nuts are generally shunned by the weight-conscious. - 'f *; Fish liver oil. These tasteless, odorless capsules are a much more pleasant way to get your vitamin 'A than a spoonful of cdd liver oil, but they work the same way. The vitamin A is often derived from halibut liver oil? an even richer source than cod liver oil. Rose hips and vitamin C. The fruit of the rose is an astonishingly rich source of vitamin C, as many Europeans know. The rose hips are prepared in powder form before being added to the tablets. Kelp. A type of Pacific Ocean seaweed, kelp supplies iodine and other important trace minerals found naturally in sea water. If you buy the granular form, you can sprinkle it on salads as a seasoning. 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