PROTEINS VERSUS THE CARBOHYDRATES

Abstract

Perhaps no time has been as propitious for the food faddist as this age of unrest. History records the fact that the food faddist has appeared in almost every recorded period of human history. Such methods die a natural death but sometimes not before accomplishing widespread injury and even death. The average faddist uses all the modern methods of illegitimate propaganda and modern high pressure salesmanship to sell his wares. He has not hesitated to select quotations from medical authorities, perverting them to his own end. The public, caught in cross currents of every sort of propaganda, has lent an ear, and the medical profession has generally been backward in approaching the problem, owing to the lack of information of a reliable nature which might controvert the evidence. Not only have these reformers rehabilitated old doctrines but they have reached a position where some of them do not hesitate to