Nourishing Traditions, Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig Ph.D.
    'The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nurtition and the Diet Dictocrats.'
     New Trends Publishing
     ISBN 0-96708973-5

     Margin notes pages 216-217:
    "I found Junkie dead this morning.  She was cold and still and dark red-brown
     blood showed on her nose and paws.

     What had I done?  I killed her.  For fourteen weeks I fed her 'junk'
     food.  She ate white flour products of white bread, saltines, doughnuts,
     sweet rolls, dinner rolls and cookies.  Highly sweetened foods were candies,
     gum drops, malted milk balls, candy corn, marshmallows, sugar frosted
     cereals, chocolates and jelly on her bread.

     Her death abruptly ended my experiment raising two young white rats.
     Junkie's food contrasted with Goodie's which were nutritious whole foods.
     She drank milk, had hard boiled eggs, shells and all, whole wheat bread,
     butter and peanut butter, oats, popcorn, dry beans and seeds, meat, fish,
     chicken, liver, and a fresh dark green cabbage leaf or piece of fruit.

     I wanted to demonstrate the effects of these two diets so I could show
     off my rats at fairs, in nutrition classes and at day care centers, for
     both children and parents.  The two rats showed a startling difference.

     They began about a month old, weighing almost the same at 128 and 129
     grams...  I kept them in separate cages and fed them enough of their different
     diets so they always had more food than they could eat...  Goodie drank milk,
     but Junkie refused uncarbonated soft drinks so I stopped offering them...
     when both were about the ages of an eight year old child, Goodie weighed
     469.1 grams and junkie weighed 168.7 grams.

     This contrast in weight showed.  When I picked up Goodie she felt firm
     and solid, but Junkie was light and frail.  Goodie's fur was full and thick,
     but Junkie's fur was so thin her skin showed through...  There were contrasts
     in endurance.  I noticed this when I took both out of their cages to let
     visitors examine them closely.  This extra handling had no effect on Goodie,
     but Junkie tired quickly and curled up for sleep at every chance while Goodie
     was up and peering out at the excitement.

     I had little warning that the end was near for Junkie.  She was
     vigorous, though small and undersized, until the day before yesterday when
     I saw her lose balance briefly...  when she tried to walk she kept falling
     over...  I endeavoured to revive her with a little milk, whole wheat bread,
     peanut butter and a green cabbage leaf...  She nibbled on the leaf but I was
     too late.

     It was sobering to wheel a shopping cart later today in a supermarket
     past shelf after shelf of candies and sweet rolls from which I had selected
     Junkie's foods.  If mothers and teachers could see my little Junkie cold and
     dead on these foods, they would think twice about letting their children have
     them, certainly not as a day to day diet.

     It could be misleading to look at an undersized active child and think
     he's doing well.  You often hear, 'He's the wiry type.'  Beware.  Junkie was
     active and outwardly healthy up to the day before she collapsed.

    -Ruth Rosevear PPNT Health Journal"