POLISHED RICE [To the Editor Of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I trust
you will permit me to endorse your comments upon the letter of Mr. Harold Roberts which, I think, com- pletely disposes of his remarks which, from my point of view, can only be described as vagaries evolved from a stratum of ignorance of food values. According to his doctrine it would follow that flour contains more nourishing properties than whole-wheat, stone-ground meal—which is absurd.
One need only try the experiment of limiting the food of a few fowls to polished rice, when- the vaeuity of your corre- spondent's assertions would be evidenced by the effect upon the controlled birds, viz., general paralysis, which, moreover, would be rapidly recovered from if the diseased poultry were supplied with that which Mr. Roberts looks upon as use- less offal, only fit for pigs.—I am, Sir, &c., ROBERT BELL, M.D.
10 Thorney Court, Palace Gate, TV. 8.
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