Word: riboflavin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irradiated foods are not at all radioactive, and no poisonous materials have been found in them. Suspicion is that the radiation may completely destroy natural vitamins (biotin, riboflavin. etc.), since the test animals show classic symptoms of severe vitamin deficiency. But the tests were haphazard and incomplete, so no one is sure that this is really the reason or how irradiated foods can be made assuredly safe. Director Morse has concluded that the whole program had better be restudied...
...neighbor always mixes horse manure with food given his dog. Is this good? A. Horse manure is rich in riboflavin, but it would be better to buy vitamin-B compounds...
...muscles throbbing with pain. Also questionable is the indiscriminate use of such words as "safe," "without risk" and "harmless." Broad casters also often resort to pseudo-pharmaceutical names or impressive "scientific" terms that the average viewer may not understand ("If you're tired from lack of thiamin and riboflavin . . ."). Others relate doctors and celebrities to a product by innuendo...
Suddenly the chemical woods were full of vitamins: vitamin A for healthy eyes; riboflavin (B2) and nicotinic acid (niacin) to prevent pellagra; ascorbic acid (vitamin C) to prevent scurvy. Merck produced all these and many more. In no time, U.S. drugstores were selling vitamins in all doses and combinations. The Government encouraged the makers of processed foods, from which vitamins have been taken out, to enrich them by putting the vitamins back. Merck now supplies tons of vitamins a year to enrich the nation's impoverished bread, margarine and breakfast cereals...
...Riboflavin, in turn, is believed to be vitally mixed up with the absorption of light by both plants and animals. It is present in the retinas of human and animal eyes and often in parts of growing plants that turn toward light. Luciferin may bear a relationship to the generation of light similar to the relationship that riboflavin bears to the absorption of light. If this is proved to be true, biochemistry will have made a long step toward understanding life itself, since life's basic energy comes from light...