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in four Canadians will evencontract cancer and one in ill die of the disease. #twill die needlessly because cent of all cancer cases are factors such as food and polcontrol, according to Ross biochemistry proressor at ster University. was speaking on “Nutri.tion y in the Food Industry d Processors Contribution to Disease and Cancer” as part nutrition lecture series at the loo Adult Recreation Centre.
,“What we don’t know about food . . .can hurt you, and hurt you very seriously,” he said. Nutrition labelling, required in the United States and expected to come to Canada, was termed “very misleading”. Using a list of five vitamins and minerals with the recommended daily allowances of each for the majority of adult& Hall &owed that only 33 out of 1,000 people would fall into every category. “You have very individual requirements for vitamins and miner-
he explained. “The recommended daily allowances are gbsolutely useless when it comes to predicting your personal requirements . ’ ’ Hall compared the 16 different vitamins and 17 minerals to a chain which is “only as good as the weakest l,tik”; a lack of just one of them can cause death. A. trade journal ad $med at Fanufacturers of potato chips was shown, urging them to add Vitamin C to their product for higher sales. Another ad claimed that one 1 l/4 ounce bag of potato chips reinforced with Vitamin C is ‘more nourishing than an apple. “Vitamins are no good if the basic nourishment is lousy,” Hall said. He added that vitamins are not food but are necessary to allow food to be used by the body. The U.S. government has decreed that two “super” donuts (vitamins and minerals added) plus one glass of milk constitute an “official meal” providing one-third of the daily nutritional needs, Hall said. It is being sold in five states as part of the school lunch program. When nutritional labelling comes to Canada, the Canadian consumer, are going to be completely bamboozled with the connivance of
the final word-the Federa’ Students hired on Sunday, a ne instead of a part-time nator for Radio Waterloo. federation reversed a moassed at a previous student 1 session allowing the station time position because of the If ‘the organization’s budget. that time, federation treasohn Long, who later ressaid that due to scarce finan:sources council shouldn’t full-time coordinator. ncil agreed with Long and ts okay to hiring one partberson for the station. The. tion’s reserve fund, accordLong, amounted to $5,500.) re were only two applicants job, and council chose Dave nn, a staffer at thextation, as ordinator. The position was ised for one week, and it I Nov. 17 and will end April ‘5; the pay is $145 per week. coordinator’s job will inplanning .f the station’s
schedule, orienting the staff, booking equipment, maintaining office hours and handling day-to-day breakdowns . Seeking “outside” grants from the government and elsewhere to enhance the station’s facilities and programming will also be the coordinator’s duty. Some councillors felt the federa; tion shoulcfn’t reverse its decision to grant Radio Waterloo a part-time coordinator, saying it wasn’t the organization’s job to supply people .with,employment. They also pointed out that Radio Waterloo had indicated in the p&t there wasn’t a need for full-time employees at the station. 1 Other councillors, however, disagreed saying the full-time position was needed because of the federations $30,000 investment in Radio Waterloo. In addition, they said it would be unfair to hire someone part-time while knowing the job entailed a full time commitment. The
federation’s part time salary is $72.50 per week. Besides granting the station $3,770 for the coordinator, council also alloted $600 for Bell Canada payments and $300 for magnetic tape.
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our federal gqvernment, he which is often used to “mask” the warned. Eighty per cent of the food ’ fact that a product has been chemisold in Canada is factory procescally treated, Hall said. sed, or “fabricated,” Hall said. Hall observed that 75 per cent of The effect of fabrication on nutrithe sugar we .eat is in prepared tional quality, is the loss of foods, bringing the per capita connutriegts:known and unknown sumption of sugar to six ounces -and the destruction of the daily. molecular relationships within any “It’s not so much the sugar itself natural food substance, I+& noted. that is harmful but the kind of food These relationships are critical that it’s in”, he said, noting that it is to the way in which food is di; a common masking agent in canned gested, and yet their importance foods, where it conceals bad odors has not been stressed as much as and flavors. that of nutrients, the professor Hall warned against artificial said. sweeteners such as saccharine, “The reason for this is that the especially when taken with the nitchemical industry is putting rites contained in bacon and saus“enormous effort” into the food age, because of experiments in industry, seeing it as “a new field to which they have caused cancer. conquer,” Hall suggested. - On the subject of cholesterol, Most chocolate commodities Hall termFd the practice of striking such as chocolate chip cookies and eggs from the diet as being eclairs are synthetic, as well as the ‘ ‘ridiculous”. cheese in any prepared food-for “Whole eggs are probably the example, macaroni and cheese or most nourishing food possible. ’ ’ pizza, Hall revealed. Referring to a chart from a poulHe wondered what the long-term try journal, the professor pointed effects might be of eating milk pudout that over the last 15 yean the dings which are treated chemically consumption of eggs has gone to keep the starch from breaking down while the incidence of corddown. nary heart disease has gone up. In every natural subs~o~e ;Fly Hall added that every cell in the is a mechanism body contains cholesterol and disdestruction-milk should go sour, missed the notion of an increased bread should go stale and meat risk of heart attack due to eating should go rotten, Hall said. cholesterol in the food as “purely “It has to be changed greatly ifit conjecture”. does not.” “Heart attacks were unknown Although the protein in soybeans prior to World War I,” he said. is very good, in processing it loses He rejected a new egg substitute two essential amino acids besides called “egg beaters” which conseveral minerals, Hall said. As artisists of genuine egg white and subficial hamburger, it doesn’t comstitute yolk, citing an experiment in pare to meat for nourishment. which rats died within two weeks of There are no requirements for eating nothing else. the synthetic product to be labelled People who eat a natural diet, if it appears in a prepared food, the Hall concluded, donot get ulcers or professor said’: cancer of the colon which is a Artificial tomato paste contains “major killer” in Canada and on 50 per cent sucrose (sugar) in its the rise. formula in addition to food coloring -dionyx mcmichael
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