Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moreover, modern bread is baked with plenty of milk or milk powder. This supplies calcium (for the bones and teeth) and the vitamin called riboflavin, which is also a powerful disease preventive. Only when made with the whole meal and milk can bread be called adequate...
...Vitamins may play an accessory role in the 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...
...candy and chewing gum were spiked with synthetic vitamin K, U.S. dentists might have to go out of business: tooth cavities, which afflict 95% of the U.S. population, might be prevented. So claimed Chemist Leonard Samuel Fosdick* & colleagues of Northwestern University in a preliminary report in Science last week. Vitamin K, found naturally in alfalfa, hog liver, cabbage, tomatoes and possibly in unrefined sugar, is valuable for its properties as a blood-clotter, especially in hemorrhages of newborn infants. When taken into the mouth, Dr. Fosdick discovered, vitamin K serves another function-it prevents sugars from turning into tooth-corroding...
...Fosdick has tried the vitamin on "several hundred" patients, but is not ready to reveal details on his clinical results. "After a year of experiment," he said, "things look very promising...
...outstripped rye. Soybeans, peanuts and flaxseed, grown mostly for their oil, now replace the coconut, palm and linseed oil imported by the tankerful before the war. But soybeans also make top-notch fodder and Henry Ford has even made a soybean plastic automobile. Flax makes linen; peanuts make tasty, vitamin-rich soldier rations...