Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vitamin Days. Many a thoughtful man wonders how his ancestors got along without knowing about vitamins. Answer: They did not get along very well. Professor Cummings points out that although they ate huge quantities of pork, corn and a sprinkling of game, they were, on the average, smaller and frailer than the average U. S. citizen today. The death rate among the young was very high. Those who survived "benefited from a vigorous life with plenty of sunshine and fresh air." Also to their benefit, they ate nutritious, unrefined sugars and molasses, bread made from vitamin-rich whole meal...
Next great food crusader was Wilbur Olin Atwater, who in the 1870s, following European methods, figured out the number of calories different occupational groups should consume. No vitamin faddist, Atwater urged U. S. workmen to fill their calory quotas with greater "energy-yielders"-meat, potatoes and bread-instead of watery stuff low in calories...
Depression Diet. Despite hard times, U. S. diets have grown more nutritious in the past ten years. Reasons: 1) more home canning; 2) more truck farming; 3) wide Government distribution of such vitamin-rich foods as oranges, grapefruit, milk, celery...
...Peeling potatoes, to modern housewives, is a sin. Potato jackets, they firmly believe, are rich in anti-scurvy Vitamin C, while the potato's inside is little more than starch and water. Last month the British Medical Journal laughed at this assertion, referred to some new research of a food chemist, Mamie Olliver. The ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) content of potatoes, she found, is more than skin deep. In fact, said the Journal, the amount of vitamin "increases from without inwards. This admirable vegetable-. . . by no means to be neglected for its contribution of iron and aneurin [ Vitamin...
...years researchers of Chicago's Swift & Co. hunted for a chemical which would delay the spoiling of lard by oxidation and would protect lard's linoleic constituent, rich in vitamin F. They finally found what they wanted in gum guaiac, made from the sap of the tropical American guaiacum tree. Swift's President John Holmes said that lard treated with tiny amounts of gum guaiac was odorless, bland in flavor...