More About “Unfitting the Unborn”

Ex-President Herbert Hoover in a radio interview on November 6, 1955, stated that the effects of starvation on a population created such mass damage that such people became a continuing liability to the world; that to save them, you had to get them young before irrevocable changes in their bodies had occurred, and that otherwise they “became the parents of the world’s bandits and gangsters.”

I know of no one who has had a better opportunity to see malnutrition in action. Children can be born with warped minds, as well as with warped bodies, as a result of the mother’s ignorance of what honest food might be, and who has tried to live by eating counterfeits and imitations.

A good example is the retrolental fibroplasia that today is the main cause of infant blindness. The cause is unquestionably bleached flour. Bleach destroys vitamin E, so essential to prevent waste of oxygen in the tissues and prevent oxidation where it is not wanted. Exposing the baby to oxygen, such as is common with premature infants, precipitating the condition. It can be prevented by a better intake of vitamin E in test animals (p. 478, Annual Review of Biochemistry, 1955).

A recent article in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition (July-August 1955) concludes with the comment, “The pathological states observed in vitamin E deficiencies have been suggested to result from the action of lipid peroxides on sulfhydryl-sensitive enzyme systems.” It is significant that the best remedy to save eye tissue from developing opacities after injury is sulfhydryl, known to all eye doctors. The author of this article calls attention to the fact that lipid peroxides have also been found present in human venous disease. (Edwin L. Hove, “Anti-vitamin E Stress Factors as Related to Lipid Peroxides,” p. 328.)

Whether or not you lose the sight of an eye after an accidental injury might depend on how much you had been cheated by counterfeit food makers, it appears. And the eyesight of your baby might be just as much a similar matter of how much the mother had been cheated in buying her food.

The tragic circumstance is accentuated by the fact that these defects due to malnutrition tend to be hereditary and require a number of well-fed succeeding generations to eliminate the tendency. This was well demonstrated in my paper “Malnutrition and Heredity–Unfitting the Unborn” (free on request to Vitamin News readers).

More evidence is available today. In Science (November 9, 1951, p. 479) you will find an article showing how the deficiency of only one of the B complex vitamins can cause the following congenital abnormalities.

Facial, cranial and eye deformities, umbilical hernias, hydrocephalus, exencephalus, anencephalus, abdominal herniations, harelip, polydactylism, syndactylism, retardation in growth, misshapen bones, cleft palate, absence of ossification centers, and other deformities. Drug Trade News of May 25, 1952, reports cleft palate and skeletal deformities from riboflavin deficiency (page 36). Also note comment on page 308, Annual Review of Biochemistry, 1953.

These are a few of the penalties Mother Nature exacts for YOUR departure from her PLAN and Pattern of Living, and the use of Counterfeits of Natural Foodstuffs. These consequences are BIOLOGICAL TIME BOMBS that we fix for ourselves. No sudden death from heart disease occurs unless there is a great contribution by accumulated food deficiencies. We let the Counterfeit Food promoter tell us that “There is no PROOF that there is any need for vitamin E Complex” or whatever other vitamin is under discussion. Certainly, there NEVER can be any such proof, until we put a few hundred HUMAN GUINEA PIGS into cages and destroy them by an artificial deficiency. The dastardly liar that makes such a statement should be shipped to the Siberian Salt Mines, I know of no more acute punishment. He deserves the worst, for he is selling us down the river for his own measly welfare.

We can PUT YOU or any other subject into a chair and record your heart sounds on a tape and read off the various serious deficiencies, just as easy as we can record the sound of a ball-bearing in a machine and tell the operator just how many more months of service he is going to get. The same machine will do both jobs.

If one fraction of the E complex is seriously lacking, the second sound of the heart (in some microphone positions) may be entirely lacking. Supplying the victim with a tablet or two of this vitamin will bring back the sound in a few minutes.

Another fraction of the E complex has exactly the effect of nitroglycerine on the vascular system and relieves angina pains as quickly as the drug. But it is the PHYSIOLOGICAL remedy, for which nitroglycerine is a poor substitute.

Another fraction of the B complex will correct skips, extra systoles and fibrillation, often effective in minutes. Another may stop valve leakages by restoring normal tone to the heart muscle, and again the change may take only a few minutes. There can be no argument as to these results. They correct the damages of starvation, and unless corrected, the patient is in danger and is dying by inches. All so totally unnecessary.

Everybody today is becoming cholesterol conscious, cholesterol in excess in the blood is so commonly a contributory cause to cardiovascular disease. Again, it is now discovered that a high blood cholesterol can be caused by one thing–BY THE USE OF SYNTHETIC FATS IN THE DIET. Feeding hydrogenated fat to rabbits, chickens or humans–the result was the same, a doubling of the blood cholesterol.

How to reduce blood cholesterol? Simply use UNREFINED VEGETABLE OILS instead of the SYNTHETIC COUNTERFEIT, and the blood cholesterol may drop BELOW normal.1

It has been said that it is the Vitamin F content of the Natural Oil that is effective. We believe that is true, but do not confuse vitamin F with “unsaturated fatty acids.” Such fatty acids may or MAY NOT have any vitamin activity. Only fresh extracts with no taint of rancidity can be expected to be of value, they must be made from sources of known clinical effectiveness. If you really want a good vegetable oil with natural vitamin content you will have to liquefy sesame seed in a liquefier and extract the oil in a small press or centrifugal juicer. (The juicer bowl will have to be lined with filter paper).

All oils in the stores (except an unrefined oil in a health food store) have been refined and heat treated to the point again of such diminishing nutritional value as to be pathetic. Olive oils may be the exception. Gallstones are cholesterol and olive oil dosage has been a remedy of long repute, but much maligned as a “quack remedy” by the surgeon. There is also something in beet leaf juice that helps to eliminate gall stones, at least to eliminate any symptoms of trouble. Two ounces twice a day (best in tomato juice) of beet leaf juice–cooked or raw–has immediate effects.

Natural fats with a high protective action against cholesterol are found in Avocado, in all raw nuts, olives however prepared, raw peanut butter (made by liquefying raw peanuts in a liquefier with a little mustard and thousand island dressing or grating in a nut flaker and mixing separately), liquefied sesame seed (available as “Tahini” in food stores, a staple Armenian and Turkish food), as the oil in all fresh ground cereals, whether whole wheat, rye or rice. (Beware of rice unless you know the source. We find all store rice, except that in some health food stores, is treated with methyl bromide, a poison that will remain adsorbed in some degree if once exposed. We suggest you get organic rice direct from growers advertising in Prevention or Natural Food and Farming.

 

References Cited:

1. Federation Proc., June 1955, p. 661, Kinsell and Michaels. Food and Nutrition News, October 1955, F. A. Kummerow, p. 1.