Word: b1
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...premiums ($3 a head for A grade hogs, $2 for B1) guaranteed the farmer a better price-but only if he maintained the quality of his stock. But the subsidy was probably enough to keep hog breeding at its war-swollen level, enable Canada to ship at least 500,000,000 lb. a year to Britain. This is what Britain needs to maintain her 4-oz. weekly bacon ration, what Mackenzie King's Liberal Government needs to quiet Opposition yammering...
...famed vitamin-B1 recently made educational news.; Columbia University's Ruth Flinn Harrell experimented with 104 orphanage children, gave some the vitamin for six weeks in the form of thiamine pills, gave the others identical-looking duds. She then had the children tackle arithmetic problems, read proof, learn codes, throw darts. The vitamin-fed orphans did anywhere from 7 to 87% better than the others...
...treatment of cancer. Patients with cancer of the stomach are unable to distribute vitamin A through the blood stream the way normal persons do. The cancer cells seem to devour the vitamin. Patients with leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, have a much higher amount of vitamin B1 in these cells than do normal persons. Conclusion: there may be a way to starve cancer cells by depriving them of the vitamins they especially need. Dr. Rhoads hinted at the startling discovery of a chemical which in the test tube strangles cancer cells without disturbing the normal cells...
...This disease, known as polyneuritis, is caused, not by alcohol, but by a vitamin deficiency -for heavy drinkers get their calories in liquor, usually lose their appetite for food. "The disease," say the authors, "never occurs in inebriates who are well-nourished. . . . It can be cured by adding vitamin B1 to the diet...
...complex, for practical purposes, is really a group of eight different chemicals. They are all found in liver and brewer's yeast; some of them also occur in whole grains. Their chemical names: thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), inositol, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, biotin and folic acid (first described last week by Dr. Roger John Williams of Texas). To keep up B requirements, Dr. Tom Spies of Birmingham, Ala. suggested a daily sandwich of yeast and peanut butter on peeled wheat bread (made from grain with only the thin outer tissue removed...