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Four ounces of such vitamin-rich products as citrus fruits and tomatoes. Four ounces of leafy green and yellow vegetables. Six ounces of meat, fish or poultry. Three ounces of butter and other fats. Two ounces of sugar. Three eggs every two days...
...Ascorbic acid (formerly vitamin C), contained in tomatoes and citrus fruits, is a simple chemical made from glucose. In 1934 its price was $213 an ounce; in 1937 it became the first of the vitamins to be manufactured synthetically and its price dropped to $3.60 an ounce. Today it is made on a scale of about 100 tons a year at $1 an ounce. One ounce is enough for the daily need of about 500 adults...
...Lucite plastic bearings in a giant citrus-juice extractor are lubricated by the juice they squeeze, are not affected by the sterilizing steam and the fruit acids, which wear down bronze...
...land where life expectancy is only 27, Gandhi after twelve days of his intended 21-day fast was sinking rapidly. Said an Indian physician, Dr. B. C. Roy: "Only a miracle" could see him through. During the first days he took only citrus juice and water. Midway through his ordeal the act of drinking water exhausted him. A panel of nine doctors announced that Gandhi's "uremic condition deepens and if his fast is not ended without delay it may be too late to save his life." He was too far gone for blood transfusions or glucose injections...
Exactly 339 days after the U.S. declaration of war on Germany, U.S. and German land troops met in battle for the first time in World War II. The place was the oak groves and citrus valleys of Tunisia, once the breadbasket of Carthage, where Scipio in the Battle of Zama finally destroyed Carthage's power...