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Sugar rationing may well cut down "the rampant decay of American teeth," writes Research Dentist Thomas J. Hill of Western Reserve University in Dentistry. Decay of teeth, says Hill, is a product of civilization. It increases with a people's standard of living and is almost unknown among the few isolated and primitive races on the fringes of civilization. At the end of the Civil War the average American ate only 31 Ib. of sugar yearly. By World War I consumption had risen to 85 Ib. Last year it was 114 Ib. The average American, says Hill, today...
...with the help of the swarms of protozoa (one-celled animals) which teem in its guts. Since termites reduce cellulose (the toughest part of plants) to humus and provide food for new plants, their destruction of wood is really a vital part of the vegetative cycle of growth and decay...
Russia changed the whole picture. There was an immediate economic decline, and a decline in morale came soon thereafter. By autumn both declines had gathered speed. "This, together with the decay of capital equipment, caused a leveling off of war production for the first time in Nazi history, then a steep decline in production." For instance, the production of locomotives in all German Europe dropped to 1,400 yearly; and the Wehrmacht was losing 29 locomotives a day in Russia (i.e., three years' production in the Russian campaign's first six months...
...psychological as well as economic. "In view of this, it is perhaps even more symptomatic of how far the social mutation inside Germany has gone that middle-class people are ceasing to behave according to their old stand ards." When Smith left Germany the atmosphere was one of decay "and that atmosphere seems thickest among the Kleinbürgertum [petite bourgeoisie]." They were drinking simply "to get soused completely and unmitigatedly [and] sexual license of people once proud of their respectability has virtually run the prostitutes out of business...
...Cramer, occupational cancer is a "preventable disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive tract -all especially common in the lower economic groups. One reason for this prevalence, said the doctor, is the "banal" fact of widespread tooth decay, or "in plain English, a dirty mouth." Improper chewing and constant swallowing of infected matter produce dangerous physical and chemical irritation of the digestive tract. Prevention of this form of cancer involves a change "in mode and habits of life...