Medical and relief officials working with the Jew-displaced persons today told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the quality of the being provided the DP’s has deteriorated to such a dangerous extent that their is actually “a slow process of starvation.”
It was pointed out that although Jewish DP’s receive 2,000 calories daily, consist almost solely of starches such as macaroni and flour which the Army is (##)g to replace meat and other foods rich in proteins.
“In certain areas the inhabitants of DP camps have gone for several months out any dried powdered eggs which have been replaced by dried pea soup,” it was (##)ed. “This looks good insofar as caloric content is concerned, but dried eggs (##)ain 50 percent proteins while pea soup contains only one percent. Such a diet (##)es people nutritionally weak and highly susceptible to dangerous infections and (##)rculosis, despite the fact that some people gain weight on this type of diet.”
Military authorities here admit that the DP diet is rather poor, but they in that it was the best they could do in view of the shortage of fats and sugar.
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