a=) aware Peer MODERN MIRACLE MEN AN ARTICLE REX BEACH ENTITLED “MODERN MIRACLE MEN", RELATING TO PROPER FOOD MINERAL BALANCES BY DR. CHARLES NORTHEN, REPRINTED FROM ‘COSMOPOLITAN, JUNE 1936 w PRESENTED BY MR. FLETCHER ‘June 1 (calendar day, JUNE 6), 1986.—Ordered tobe printed (6 Doce, 72, vo 648 MODERN MIRACLE MEN DR. CHARLES NORTHEN, WHO BUILDS HEALTH FROM THE ‘GROUND UP This quiet, unballyhooed jenius in the field of nutrition demonstrates that cour fe eran 2 ater from the fact that impoo- this alarm raises truly Yealthy and health-otoing fruits and vegetables (@y Rex Beas) Do you know that most of us today are sufering from certain Sh hrlrhr———— CE ‘which our foods come are brought into ‘proper “The a now peng oe od enough of certain needed mineral, aro Stig uae fale bow fuel of them jow generations ago. xplaina why our forefathers thrived on a selection ul starve ual) “No men of today can eat enou fruits end vegetables to supply his system with the ts i Bre ‘enough oie ‘American po i fkincy inom oe of ts Sars tnprtan! ances scaly ror disease. Any ‘any considerable lack of one or ‘nother element, however microscopio the body requirement may be, ‘and we sicken, suffer, sherten our lives, 12 MODERN MIRAGLE MEN latest and most important contributions yuman health, Following a wide ized in etomnach diseases and intelligently in tho , when they differed 0 content, ‘The they could not be used intelligently. In serious deficiencies existed and in vearshin hho mado an extensive study of the oll ff os helo ra ond theca nena indy of the eof Building thé baie of food bulling in order to nccomplish human "Beat in mind,” says Dr, Northen, “that minerals are vital to human metabol ., They reasoned that funetion of the human symptom of di “sone of out Zepestd authorities secondary minerals playe only recently that such Dr, Mendel of Yale, D: ‘MODERN MIRACLE MEX 8 he assumes that by adding a little fertilizer to it, table or fruit can be grown. “Phe truth is that our foods vary enormously in valu 2 to disease. fad been done lerthon are outstanding, By 3s are mado of, hens proved fi forho has opened up the shortest vegeta “Ge improved the quality of milk by increasing the iron and the iodine int ‘He caused hens to lay eggs richer in the vital elements. By scenic soll fering, he raed beter ead polatien in Maing better grapes in California, bette Florida and better field proved that hird the size Place a number of these little animals inside a maze after starving some of them in e certain mineral element. ‘The starved ones will be unable to find their way out, wheress the others will have little or no difficulty in getting out. ‘Their dispositions can be altered by mineral4 MODERN AIRACLE MEN feeding. ‘They can be mado quarrelsome and beliger even be turned into cannibal made to de and they ‘Then they will begin to fight. Restore their calcium balance Til grow more friendly; in time they will begin to sleep in fore ‘Many backward children ar dafelgt agnss We pan P*dertainly our physical well-being is more directly dependent upon the mineral we fave into our oyetens than upon elonse or vitamins ‘or upon the precise proportions of starch, protein, or carbohydrates id” merely because they are mn for our failure to feed them phorus, and iron Caleburn i Powertully affects the ies nerve ection, Tt thmie best of the or 69 percent showed affections of the nove an swollen glands, enlarged or diseased tonsils, More than one-third had defective vision, round shouldere, bow legs, and anemia, : Galetum and phosphorus appear to pull in double harness, A requires as much per day as two grown men, but sti ‘common deficiency of both in our food. Research point to a deficiency of one or the other as the cat {0 the farmers, and when the gl is poor in phos become bone-chewers. Dr. McCollum says that when there are © blood there can be no dental decay. has be i yn and copper in hhence in the grass. A man may starve for want of theso elements just as a beef “critier” starves. MODERN ATRAGLE MEN 5 0 poor in iodine goes, dovin through the form of medication with lasting effect ‘But thero is a more potent reason why the curing of diet by dugeag haat wotkad out eo well.” Cousder thos 10 jndispense- bl lant and those others which prosumubly perform some obscure function as yet undetermined. Aside from calcium and phosphorus, they are needed only in infinitesimal quantities, and the ectvity of fone may be dependent upon the presence of another, To determine ope my, nee de ea an dee 's scales would appear hopeless serious one, But the hopeful side of d to do 80. ‘and vegetables are ly fine suspension that tis merely a question of giving back to nature the sree Inking ix ely to an abeonce ged and he was as foods did not contain ‘could with certainty able becnune many ‘ur oails have been constontly iy the content of e entirely different from another made oducts raved in virgin Eeploted. Soil analyses, ie Bs Ono analyeis may ” came the query. undertook to demonstrate thet-something could be By reestablishing a proper soil balance he actually grew ‘rope that coniained an ample amount of the desired minerals,