Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with age, in contrast to the known alteration of the chemical content of the tissues, especially the arteries." One way to forestall aging, some chemists suspect, is a judicious diet. Dr. Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia found that when rats were given increased amounts of either calcium or riboflavin (vitamin 62) or vitamin A, senility was deferred and they lived longer...
Housewives, if you care about vitamins, handle vegetables with care! So warned the British Lancet last week. For most vitamins are frail: any tampering, let alone improper cooking, ruins them. Vitamin A (carrots, spinach, sweet potatoes) is very stable, stands up under boiling. But vitamins B and C (green vegetables, tomatoes, cabbage) run out with the juice when vegetables are cut, soaked, bruised, or boiled for any length of time. Some Lancet cookery tips...
...Lunch and dinner: potatoes prepared in many ways, Kommissbrot (bread made from coarse whole rye, rich in vitamin B), all sorts of cheeses, milk, sour milk or milk powder (it stays fresh for eight months), rice, beans, peas, oats and barley, dried vegetables, dried and preserved fruits. "Fresh vegetables are given in great quantities," and all cooking water is used again for soups and sauces to save vitamins and minerals...
Food v. Pills. The Germans, says Dr. Gerson, believe that "a dollar will buy more vitamins in the market than in the drugstore." They do not add artificial vitamins to food, nor are Nazi soldiers fed vitamin pills. German doctors learned this lesson from an experiment in the Swiss Army, where soldiers were fed an artificial vitamin preparation (vitamins C and B. mineral salts, iron, dried yeast and a gelatinous sugar). Results: "Poor...
German nutritionists have found, says Dr. Gerson, that doses of artificial vitamins and minerals may act against each other. Example: large doses of vitamin A may drain the body's reserves of C, produce scurvy. The German soldiers get their vitamins in butter, rye bread, yeast extract, soybeans, vegetables, milk...