This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In 1910 Collier’s sued for libel, and won, although the judgment was set aside a year later. In 1907 Collier’s Magazine questioned whether Grape-Nuts could actually cure appendicitis, and Grape-Nuts incessantly attacked what it dubbed a “yellow” magazine. “These facts caused the invention of Grape-Nuts, in which the starch of wheat and barley is transformed by scientific cooking into sugar, shining on the outside of each little granule of Grape-Nuts.” If the food is not changed, serious bowel complaints and all too often appendicitis follows, directly traceable to irritation and disease caused by undigested starch. “Then follows ‘starch indigestion,’ well-known to physicians and a very common complaint. They learned too late that pasty, starchy and half cooked cereals, added to white bread, potatoes and other starch food, makes more starch than the average man or woman can digest. “One had appendicitis and the other bowel trouble. “Some little Johnny bears ate too freely of pasty undercooked oats and wheat - got more starchy food than they could digest,” reads the ad. Activate your Online Access Now Article content If you are a Home delivery print subscriber, unlimited online access is included in your subscription.
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