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...milk stand in the sun. This advice was earnestly tendered recently by chemists of North Carolina State College. Their findings: bottled milk in the sun loses 40% of its vitamin 62 (riboflavin) in an hour, 72% in three hours. In the refrigerator or even in a dark room at room temperatures it loses none at all. Milk is the chief source of riboflavin in the U.S. diet...
...Because the chemical mixture is vitaminless and its exact composition is known, it can be used as a basic diet to determine the body's exact vitamin needs. With such a diet, the effect of adding or subtracting vitamins is clear-cut. Present vitamin charts, based on tests with natural foods, are only approximate...
Word of a rich fish came last week from Cape Town. The fish is the source of an extract 800 times richer in vitamin A than the best cod-liver oil. The 60-lb. fish, commonly called the "bloubiskop" by South African fishermen, is the bafaro (Polyprion americanus). A thimbleful of its liver oil has enough vitamin A to supply a whole family for eight months...
...past five days I have consumed approximately $ Ib. of codfish. This codfish, taken with parslev sauce, has greatly enhanced my vigor and has done me more good in these days of blackouts and long hours than all the vitamin pills and fanciful health notions officially recommended...
California Packing Corp., Washington Laboratories, Halibut Liver Oil Producers and vitamin-conscious Borden Co. have become big buyers and processors of shark livers. Borden shark-fishing boats are busy off the West Coast of North America and as far south as Chile. Early in April Borden moved into the Gulf, through its purchase of Shark Fisheries, Inc. and Shark Industries, Inc., including a small vitamin-processing plant at Salerno, Fla. This plant will become its base for a vast shark-fishing operation in the Caribbean. If necessary to meet the U.S. demand for 149 trillion U.S.P. units of vitamin...