A striking paper on the "Dietetic Value of Sugar" appears
in last week's issue of the British Medical Journal, by Dr. Willoughby Gardner. Roughly speaking, the world's con- sumption of sugar in the last fifteen years has doubled, while in Great Britain it has trebled per head in forty years. Another interesting point is that the English and Americans stand easily at the head of the list as the sugar-eating nations. Dr. Willoughby Gardner establishes the fact that sugar is a potent creator of energy and maintainer of stamina. This, he contends, is not only proved by laboratory experiments, but by the case of the date-eating Arabs, the fine health of the sugar-cane-eating negroes, and the results obtained by Alpine climbers, Arctic explorers, athletes, and German soldiers fed on a special diet. Dr. Willoughby Gardner's general con- clusion is that the increased height and weight, and the improved health of the English people in the last half-century are largely due to the increased consumption of sugar.
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