Dr. H. W. Miller Yells Rotarians of Uses: First Rank "Thank you" may well save their breath, for she cannot hear them; fortunately, perhaps, for this service 1s so arranged that she can answer twenty calls at one In view of the publicity given the recent competition for the English telephone girl with the "golden" voice, it fg Interesting to note that in front of ther Shanghai equivalent ts a dial which instantly shows the volume and intensely of her voice. Part of the dial is marked in red and in Utility in Human Nutrition A very Interesting and informative address was delivered on Thursday to members of the Shanghai Rotary Club) at their usual weekly re-union held the Metropole Hotel, by Dr. Harry 'W. Miller, medical superintendent of the Shanghai Sanitarium and Clinic. pon "The Food Value of the Soy Introduced to the meeting by Me. William Vinson Lee, the speaker pointed out that China was the home the yellow soy bean, it being called the "gold" of China because, _compared with all other food substances, it ranked frst in its utility as food, none other known storing. so much of nature's energy and containing much human nutrition.
"AMI animal life" said Dr. Miller "ig dependent primarily upon the products of the sall,.chemical analyses showing that all the elements found Ju the bodles of animals are not found in vegetation, so that it Is now up science to be able to produce from vegetable products similar flavours jand nutritional values equivalent to those contained in the flesh of animals that are used for foodstuffs. 'This Is gradually being accomplished _and when It shall have been fully accomplished there fs no contribution from' an economic as well as @ health stand. point that can surpass it in behalf of the welfare of humanity.
"There are the usual waste products arising out of muscular activ es, added, to which are the bacteria growths-producing poisons during the curing process of meats, and recently our attention is being directed to-rds the Increase in disease among animals and fish, many. of which are, more or less, transmitted 10 the human consumers of the flesh, How-fever, meat plays an important part the nutrition of the race, and will continue to do so until satisfactory substitutes are provided, which substitutes must contribute palatability as well og nutritional equivalents 10 fain popularity.
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