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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1948
Mexicans Are Shriveling Nutrition Specialist Fears
Mexico City—(UP) - Mexico will be a nation of dwarves within half a century, Dr. Francisco de P. Miranda, Mexican nutrition specialist fears.
The doctor said the nation must increase its protein intake or be content with growing down.
The nation's diet as a whole is definitely sub-standard, Dr. Miranda said. Mexicans currently are eating $ ^{\textcircled{4}} $ even the wartorn na Color Slides Shown
The Mexican diet figures out to 1,657 calories a day. Dr. Miranda said, while the United Nations Food and Agriculture organization estimates that a diet of as little as 2,400 calories a day is close to the danger point.
"The three principal diet deficiencies of the Mexican people are lack of protein, riboflavin and niacin." Dr. Miranda said.
The average Mexican farmer, if he has a cow or chickens, must sell his milk or eggs to live. If he has corn or wheat fields, he has to market the grains.
Lack of protein restricts growth lack of riboflavin lowers the growth factor even further and lack of niacin makes the average Mexican susceptible to pellagra, a skin eruption with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, the doctor explained.
The doctor said that the main item on the Mexican daily menu is corn, consumed in the form of tortillas, a thin, flat, unleavened corn bread baked on a hot stone or piece of sheet metal. And there is less than half a pound, 216 grams, of that.
He pointed out that "in its deaths the problem is economic."
Then Dr. Miranda said, comes about half a glass of milk, followed by 69 grams of wheat flower, 47 grams of sugar, 22 grams of beans and 11 grams of beef.
The beef, for example, the doctor said, adds up to one small, 2-plus ounce steak per week.
The average Mexican consumes about half as many calories as a person in the United States.
Dr. Miranda said because of diet deficiencies, Mexicans are always cold. The farmer wears his "gavan," or blanket with a hole in the middle, and the big city laborer wears his overcoat or jacket even on sunny days because they are undernourished.
Too, he said, the high general mortality rate, the high infantile mortality rate and deaths even from diseases that are not considered mortal are indications of the poor nutritive state of a large sector of the population.
"Without raising our food levels, we will be a little people in fifty years more," he concluded.
Review Available To Students
The bureau of business research has announced that students may get the Kansas Business Review, a monthly publication devoted to Kansas economic and business facts.
The Kansas Business Review is compiled by Paul E. Malone, director of the bureau, and other staff members.
The review gives statistics concerning cash farm income, sales tax collections, freight revenue, and the cost of living.
"This publication should be of particular interest to business majors, and other professional men" Mr. Malone said. "However, any interested student may be placed on the mailing list by calling the business research office. There is no charge."
Copies of the November issue are still available and may be obtained by calling at the bureau office.
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Color Slides Shown To Geology Group
Dr. R. M. Dreyer, professor of geology and Dr. Raymond C. Moore, head of the Kansas Geological Survey, spoke to members of the Sigma Gamma Epsilon, national honorary fraternity, Wednesday. They discussed two papers they had presented at a meeting of the Geological Society of America in New York last month.
Three representatives from the Phillips Petroleum company, Bartlesville, Okla., will interview engineering students Wednesday, Dec. 8, and Thursday, Dec. 9 in 111 Marvin hall.
Dr. Dreyer discussed "Liquid Inclusions in Halite as a guide to Geologic Thermometry" Dr. Moore spoke on "The Meaning of Facies. Both speeches were illustrated with color slides.
They are interested in January graduates in chemical, elecfrical, mechanical, civil, petroleum, and geological engineering, and chemists, geologists, and physicists.
Oil Company To Interview Here
A qualification record and schedule may be filled out in 111 Marvin hall.
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