Debates and discussions with flour milling industry on the refining of flour

Correspondence and papers relating to Burkitt's communication with the flour milling industry about the effects of refining flour and the defensive responses from the industry. Comprises a press statement by The Flour Advisory Bureau issued in May 1972 refuting claims that there is a connection between products such as white bread and the incidence of diverticular disease in developed countries (the statement ends with a quote by Professor McCance "Discussions on the relative merits of white and wholemeal bread are usually directed more by psychological bias than by experimental facts"), and copy of a response signed by Burkitt, Painter and Trowell; letter submitted to the BMJ for publication from the Flour Milling and Baking Research Association entitled 'A critique of the Cleave-Painter-Burkitt hypothesis concering the effects of dietary fibre', discussing 'factual inaccuracies' in the theory, with a copy of Burkitt's response, Jul-Sep 1972.

1972

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