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Preventives.....................13Danger to Health in DDT................20Camera Testing Service...................22Booklet on Loud-Speakers...............  23Preliminary Report on New RCA VictorRecords.............................  26Fluorescent Lamp Breakage...............  26Features  \nOff the Editor's Chest...................  2The Consumers'Observation Post..........   3Ratings of Motion Pictures...............  24Phonograph Records....Walter F.Grueninger 31Cumulative Index(Jan.through June)29  \nBU L LETIN  \nJune 1949  \nVol.23●No.6  \nOfF the Editor's Chest  \nAS the hot weather season arrives,there willno doubt be found an occasional healthcolumnist who will rush into print with advice tocut down on the amount of meat eaten and to con-centrate on vegetables and salads.The supersti-tion that it is unhealthy to eat meat in the summer-time,which is now known to have no foundationin fact,dies hard.One of the most widely quotedstudies which shows the fallacy of this belief wasmade by Dr.E.B.Forbes and Dr.R.W.Swiftof Pennsylvania State College.When the effectof a diet of protein,fat,and carbohydrates wasmeasured,it was found that the carbohydratesproduced the greatest increase in metabolism,withprotein next,and fat last.It has also been pointedout that wartime research debunked the old no-tion that meat should be eaten only sparingly inthe tropics,and that a high protein diet had an im-portant bearing on the low rate of disease of U.S.troops stationed in the tropics during World WarII.  \nJournal of the American Medical Association.  \nThe history of nutrition is divided by Dr.Mc-Lester into five eras.First was the “energy era”of such students of the body's metabolism as Liebig,Atwater,and Lusk,when prime consideration wasgiven to energy exchange and attention was cen-tered on calories.Then came the era which Dr.McLester calls\"adequacy in diet,\"when physiciansdiscarded the doctrine that.any illness could becured by starvation and began to put their patientson a more liberal diet,thereby shortening theperiod of illness in many cases and minimizingthe period of debility.The third era is charac-terized as the day of \"intestinal autointoxication,\"when the belief in economy in nutrition prevailed,and protein came into disrepute.The outstand-ing protagonist of this theory was the noted physi-ologist R.H.Chittenden,in the early 1900's.The lack of scientific basis for this theory was onefactor in discrediting it,for no control groups hadbeen used to substantiate the published argumentsthat a low protein intake made for improvement ofhealth,and furthermore the time period was en-tirely too short.  \nThe importance of a high protein or meat dietto health and well-being has long been stressed byConsumers'Research.We began to pick up andreport studies and researches in the field some tenyears ago.The significance of this trend in nutri-tion is excellently evaluated by Dr.James S.McLester,noted medical nutrition expert of theMedical College of Alabama,University of Ala-bama,in a lecture entitled\"Protein Comes IntoIts Own,”which was recently published in the  \nAnimal experiments reported by E.V.Mc-Collum and N.Simmonds and the actual experienceof Vilhjalmur Stefansson in subsisting for longperiods on an exclusive meat diet played im-portant parts in ending acceptance among scientistsof the belief that it was wise to subsist on a low(Continued on page 15)  \n# The Consumers'Observation Post\n\nCOMPLAINTS THAT NYLON STOCKINGS disappear right offthe legs of their wearers make newspaper headlines fromtime to time.  The latest report to this effect has comefrom Jacksonville,Fla.  Actually,as it turned out oninvestigation,something in the atmosphere caused threadsof nylon hose to break and numerous runs resulted.Similar difficulties have been reported in Philadelphia,Washington,D.C.,a","cbCaio8L71lAYlYF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaio8L71lAYlYF","pdf",2867351,32,"English","# Off the Editor's Chest\n## Nutrition eras and protein vs meat\n# The Consumers'Observation Post\n## Nylon stocking runs and atmospheric causes\n## Dental decay and sugar/soft drinks\n## Juke-box records and consumer acceptance\n## Soap vs synthetic detergents","[{\"question\":\"What does the bulletin say about eating meat in hot weather?\",\"answer\":\"It argues the belief that meat is unhealthy in summer has no foundation, citing studies where carbohydrates increased metabolism more than protein, and protein diet research during wartime.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do nylon stockings sometimes run or disappear after wear?\",\"answer\":\"It reports that investigations found atmospheric factors that break nylon threads, with similar effects compared to exposure to steam containing sulfuric acid and vehicle exhaust near moisture and acids.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the bulletin advise consumers to reduce dental decay?\",\"answer\":\"It advises children to eat candy as dessert rather than between meals, predicting that stopping refined sugar consumption and eliminating soft drinks could greatly reduce dental decay.\"}]","The Consumers'Observation Post - Off the Editor's Chest | PDF",1790695172,49]