Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every child can be given all the vitamin D it needs in one big dose at the beginning of each winter, and rickets can be conquered once & for all. That was the proposition Dr. Henry John Gerstenberger of Western Reserve presented to members of the American Medical Association last week. He reminded them of the shock ing but well-known fact that thousands of U.S. children are still weak, potbellied and spindly, because many mothers do not know enough to give their babies a daily teaspoon of vitamin-D-rich cod-liver oil or halibut-liver oil as a sunshine...
Reasons: 1) sufficient productive capacity for riboflavin, which may be a required ingredient of the new flour, will not be ready for almost a year; 2) enriched flour is not as rich in minerals and vitamins as whole grain; 3) to keep up his vitamin BI requirement from this source alone, a person would have to eat almost a whole loaf of enriched bread every day (of the non-enriched white bread, he would have to eat three to four loaves); 4) the amount of vitamins available to put into bread may just now be seriously curtailed by shipments...
Coarse brown bread, the delegates agreed, is still the best source of vitamin B1. but relatively few people want...
...farmers to stop throwing "one of the most valuable foods - dried skim milk" - to the pigs. In fact, he said, "we have given our livestock the best part of many foods." Other experts urged that more dried eggs be produced, that farm lands be devoted to mass cultivation of vitamin-rich peanuts and soybeans...
...strictly against the rules to feed a race horse little white pills to give it more pep. In baseball, not so. Last spring Manager Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals began dosing his players with vitamin B1 pills. Last week, as the baseball season neared its eighth week, the hopped-up Redbirds were going lickety-split in the National League pennant race...