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and also how to select a variety that will give you all the essentials of a good diet they have come up with answers to all these matters.

I'm writing this to put the problem before you, to urge you to do something about it and to tell you how to go about doing so. There are a number of companies around the country selling dried food products, but there is a catch to many of them. Oxygen may be an es- sential to life when you breathe it but it is a bad thing in stored foods because it oxidizes the essential substances. Thus while not spoiling the material in the can in the sense of decay, it is very greatly degrad- ed from the destruction of specific necessary vitamins and other sub- stances which are necessary for good health. So it isn't enough to just put the dried food in a can, neither is it enough to spray it with a stream of nitrogen to replace the surface oxygen before putting the lid on. This doesn't remove the oxygen between the pieces of food in the can. So the best thing to do is to put the cans under a vacuum to suck out the oxygen, bring the tank back to room pressure by admitting nitrogen to it, thus replacing the oxygen with nitrogen... then put the lid on. This is what the company mentioned below does. It results in a guarantee of only 2 percent oxygen in the cans. This assures the longest possible shelf life.

If you can find a reliable distributor in your part of the country, deal with him, but if you can't, I'd like to strongly suggest that you write to The Storehouse, 2838 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, Calif. 90465. Please tell them that you heard about them from Virginia BRUCE. Don't mention the name Prince as they don't know anything about my being a TV, it is a perfectly straight deal with them. I'm just another woman customer and they like me so don't mess that up. But if you write and become interested enough to order something, I'd like them to know that I helped them obtain the account. They not only have good things available but they have been very nice to me. So I'll be doing a good turn to them and to you by telling you about it. Thanks,

Virginia

And remember! It wasn't raining when Noah was building the Ark.