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ecent years, Ceylon has been consuming more than she has
produced, creating a serious negative trade balance.
Therefore the people of Ceylon (Sinhalese) must learn to
make more efficient use of her existing food. And they need
more protein in their rice-centered diet.
Dr. Henry Borsook, Professor of Biochemistry at the
California Institute of Technology and Research Director of
the Meals for Millions Foundation and original inventor of
the world famous “3¢ meal–multi-purpose food” points out
that one doesn’t need “to have any animal proteins to be
healthy. The mixture of proteins in most vegetables is hardly
ever totally devoid of any of the indispensable amino acids.
One or two may be low in one food. This relative deficiency
is not the same in all vegetables and by mixing two or more
vegetable foods with different relative deficiencies, the
mixture can be nutritionally complete, and this is not
difficult to do.” He further points out that “A country’s
nutritional potential should and can be measured in terms of
the essential nutrients in all forms which it grows, whether
they are in foods commonly eaten or not.” (p. 3).
In addition to “the cultivation of pulses, attention
should be given to the production of leguminous crops
which are rich in vegetable proteins like groundnut and
soybeans. While these crops can be useful in providing
much needed protein, we feel that soybean which through
modern processing methods can be made to yield a
‘complete’ protein that compares favourably with milk or
meat is the crop which should receive the greatest emphasis.
In this connection it may be noted that: ‘Wherever soybeans
can be grown–and there are few conditions under which
they cannot–they are the cheapest source of complete
protein in terms of land area required and the hours of
labour employed per pound of protein provided.’” (p. 5.
Meals for Millions Foundation, International Inter-Affiliate
News, Nov. 1956, p. 8)
“We are glad to make due acknowledgement of the
great interest and helpfulness the Meals for Millions
Foundation is continuing to show, to lead to the day when
Ceylon, like India, will be able to produce her own multipurpose
food and help the people to attain a still higher
level of health and nutrition.
“To re-capitulate, we have attempted in this
memorandum, among other things, to show the steps that
may be taken towards raising nutritional levels, bringing
down the cost of living, augmenting savings for ensuring
better capital investment, emphasising the gravity of the
population problem before the country, the need for
adapting food production to meet the nutritional standards
of the population on more scientific lines and, pointed out
the importance of producing low-cost nutritional
supplements and infant foods, especially to help the low
income groups.” (p. 14). Address: All Ceylon Buddhist
Congress.
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178. Pawley, Walter H. 1963. Possibilities of increasing
world food production. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations. ix + 231 p. Illust. (part
color). Map (folded color). 23 cm. Series: Freedom from
Hunger Campaign, Basic Study No. 10 *
Address: Director.
179. Photograph of (left to right) Nelda Clinton, Clifford
Clinton, Fred Patterson, Jean Davis and her son, David.
1963.
• Summary: Fred Patterson was Nelda’s father. Jean Clinton
Davis was the daughter of Clifford and Nelda. Taken in
1963, in Jean’s living room in Los Angeles, after the
untimely death of her husband.
This photo and date were sent to Soyinfo Center by
Donald Clinton, son of Clifford Clinton (Jan. 2011).
180. Hall, Elizabeth. 1964. Food for the future: Millions of
tiny microbes, known as yeast cells, filled with vitamins and
proteins, may relieve the pain of children suffering with
kwashiorkor and other protein deficiency diseases. Science
News Letter 85(1):10-11. Jan. 4.
• Summary: The cells of food yeast, Torulopsis utilis, live
on sugar and nitrogen; 1,000 pounds of food yeast seed can
produce 7,000 pounds (3½ tons) of yeast protein per day.
By contrast, a 1,000-pound steer (a giant “protein factory”)
produces only nine-tenths of a pound of protein a day. 1,000
pounds of soybean seed produce only about 82 pounds of
protein per day under favorable conditions. Food yeast is an
excellent source of B-vitamins, however it should be used
only as a supplement, rather than as the sole source of
protein in a diet.
Another type of yeast (Saccharomyces rouxii), known
as “primary dried yeast,” is the familiar type of bread used
to leaven bread and ferment wine. A one-celled organism, it
reproduces by budding.
Yeast “concentrates are being used in nutritional
supplements such as Multi-Purpose Food sent overseas by