Why do modern manufactures remove the bran and the germ of the wheat? Because are live and tend to spoil when the flour is stored for any length of time. They also attract weevils that spoil the flour. Evidently the weevils know what is good! For although ordinary white still as plenty of starch or carbohydrates, it does not contain the elements needed for normal growth and development of the body.

Take the question of polished rice, a food used by millions of people in many parts of the world today. Like the wheat, the rice grain is also enclosed in an outer covering containing many of the minerals and vitamins so essential to health. Yet these substances are deliberately removed so that the polished rice may be stored for longer periods of time.

Polished rice may look attractive, but the results of living on such a diet are often tragic. Through this polishing process, many children are robbed of the vital elements so necessary to a growing child. They are starved while trying to grow up on devitalized foods, the best part of the grain having been lost or thrown away.

Deficiency diseases are not new to the world. They have been with us for many centuries.
We know this by studying the remains from ancient burial grounds. Malnutrition was only too common years ago, just as it still is some areas. But today there is no excuse, for now we’ know why these deficiency diseases occur.