Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This means that the old slogans, "A for eye troubles, B for beriberi, C for scurvy, etc.," are not quite accurate. For specific vitamins do not invariably cure specific diseases; they all work together. Experience has shown that in groups of people deprived of all vitamins for a long period of time, various individuals develop different deficiency diseases. Some do not even have scurvy or pellagra; they develop anemia instead-a disease not ordinarily believed related to vitamin deficiency...
Conclusion: natural foods provide a harmonious combination of vitamins. Vitamin pills are necessary only for definite deficiency diseases, should be given only by doctors...
What's in a Name? Each vitamin is a specific chemical compound necessary for the body's efficient physiological functioning. The alphabetical vitamin tags were given originally for convenience. Today scientists prefer to call the vitamins by their chemical names. The latest list...
...Vitamin A, or carotene, is found in bright yellow foods such as butter, eggs, apricots, corn, sweet potatoes, carrots...
...However, several biochemists last week reported that prematurely grey hair can be warded off and even darkened again by para-amino-benzoic acid, a member of the vitamin B complex...