Word: vitamine
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...scouts and women's services were sent on their finger-pricking harvest when British chemists found that rose hips are an absurdly rich source of vitamin C-400% richer than oranges (now rare as mangoes in Britain) and 300% richer than black currants (C-richest cultivated fruit). All this was reported in copies of Monthly Science News recently arrived in the U.S. from England...
Martin's audacious theory (already tested with rats and chicks) will be tested later this month on a volunteer group of Sing Sing convicts, who are now guinea-pigging the darkening effects of a B vitamin (para-amino-benzoic acid) on grey hair (TIME...
Before beginning their dietary ordeal, the participants ate an extra quantity of vitamin A in the form of halibut liver oil with their regular meal. During the test, the fare contained lass than a tenth of what is usually considered the minimum vitamin requirement, and only one-fiftieth the amount recommended by the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council...
...deficiency in vitamin A was partly compensated for by doses containing the other minerals essential to good health so that no detrimental effects on the "guinea pigs" could be detected...
...must have concern for children above all," Jones said, since it is among them that famine takes its greatest toll. Widespread rickets among European children is being combated with vitamin concentrates, formerly shipped in five gallon lots via clipper, and now obtained in Denmark...