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soy acidophilus milk will never be a large business, but
the manufacturers will, I am sure, be glad to pay a modest
royalty for use of the pictures of the quints in selling the
ideas to the public... There are parties waiting to undertake
the manufacture and distribution of soy acidophilus here in
the South. P.S. Admiral Byrd has been using this milk with
great benefi t. During his lecture tour...” Address: Miami,
Florida.
110. Good Health (Battle Creek, Michigan). 1936. Soy milk
versus cow’s milk. 71(9):275. Sept.
• Summary: This editorial argues that soy milk is healthier
and less subject to food-borne diseases than cow’s milk.
“The use of soy acidophilus milk is also recommended
because it encourages the growth of acidophilus, the
protective germ which stands guard in the intestine to
prevent invasion by the disease-producing organisms.”
111. Good Health (Battle Creek, Michigan). 1936. Heating
milk prevents injury to persons sensitized to it. 71(9):280.
Sept.
• Summary: “A better plan is to substitute milk prepared
from the soy bean or cow’s milk when the latter is found to
disagree. Soy milk looks like cow’s milk, has essentially the
same nutritive value when dextrin or milk sugar is added,
and when properly prepared, has an agreeable fl avor which
infants do not dislike.
“Infants also profi t greatly by the use of cultured soy
milk, known as Soy Acidophilus Milk.”
“Soy milk may now be obtained in condensed form, put
up in tins resembling various brands of condensed cow’s
milk. It is hoped that a good quality of powdered soy milk
may be available in dried form.”
112. Kellogg, John Harvey. 1936. How to change the
intestinal fl ora: The use of enemas. Good Health (Battle
Creek, Michigan) 71(9):268-70, 284-85. Sept.
• Summary: This is the third in a 4-part series of articles.
Lactic acid, a chemical stimulant provided by Nature to
encourage bowel action, is “produced by the action of the
protective organism, Lactobacillus bifi dus acidophilus,
which, if present in adequate numbers (85-100 per cent of
the bacteria found in the stools) will not only prevent the
development of disease-producing germs, thus affording
protection against colitis, appendicitis and other bowel
troubles, but will secure in a normal colon evacuation after
each meal of residues free from ill-smelling putrefaction
products.
“Enemas of acidophilus cultures, especially of the soy
acidophilus type, such as Soy Acidophilus Milk, are most
effective, but ordinary sour milk or buttermilk enemas are
useful...
“It is best to use in each enema a mixture of soy
acidophilus culture with water, Nufl ora and lemon juice or
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lactic acid... From two to three pints of Soy Acidophilus
Milk should be used daily, with one or two ounces of Lacto-
Dextrin for each pint of the culture.”
For gas distention, use a pint of soy acidophilus milk
with an ounce of dextrin and a pint of hot water (115º F).
“Soy acidophilus milk should be used regularly. One or two
pints a day is usually suffi cient to keep the fl ora in good
condition if the diet is right.”
113. Kellogg, John Harvey. 1936. Re: Bifi dus acidophilus
and Soy Acidophilus. Letter to Mr. John M. Lonsdale, 46
Westwood Ave., Altrincham, Cheshire, England, Oct. 31. 2 p.
Typed, without signature (carbon copy).
• Summary: “Yours of October 17 has reached me here at
my winter headquarters [in Florida].
“I fi rst obtained the organism bifi dus acidophilus from
Dr. Tissier, of the Pasteur Institute, in 1912, and have been
making use of it ever since. A report from the laboratory
that made the culture for me, a short time ago showed that
between 1912 and 1935, we had received from the laboratory
over 28,000 gallons of the culture.
“Dr. Tissier informed me that he could not make the
organism grow in milk.” Dr. Kellogg eventually succeeded
in making it grow “in the whey of milk with the addition of
peptone, and later a type of acidophilus was developed by
making 25 or 30 transfers which grew quite well in milk.
“The trouble is, it seems to me, that the long process of
adapting the organism to a cow’s milk medium, denatures
it so that it doesn’t do so well... when attempts are made to
reimplant it.
“The new type, Soy Acidophilus, is easily developed by
planting the organism in soy milk under exacting laboratory
conditions. It starts off a vigorous growth at once.
“The clinical results obtained by the use of the soy
acidophilus type appear to be much better than those
obtained from the dairy milk cultures, and the count is very
much higher.
“It is easy to obtain cultures with a count of four or fi ve
billions per cc., which certainly is not often obtained with
cow’s milk.” Address: [Miami, Florida].
114. Kellogg, John Harvey. 1936. Eating fruit before meals.
Good Health (Battle Creek, Michigan) 71(10):302-03. Oct.
• Summary: Dr. Kellogg advocates eating thoroughly
ripened fruits before meals. The Lactobacillus bifi dusacidophilus
protects the digestive tract and maintains
it in an acid state. If these bacilli are lost, they “may be
restored by feeding an artifi cial culture, made by growing
Lactobacillus bifi dus-acidophilus in milk. Ordinary dairy
milk is commonly employed, but recent experiments have
shown that a milk prepared from the soy beans produced
more vigorous and rapid-growing organisms. The latter
culture is now available under the name of Soy Acidophilus
Milk. The culture may be had, ready for use, or the milk may