Word: vitamined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These are days when good nutrition takes on a new importance. It's downright patriotic to know your vitamin alphabet . . . and to see that your three meals . . . are well balanced. America must be strong -Americans must be strong...
Food, Not Pills. Mass distribution of vitamin pills to factory workers is "irrational, unwise, uneconomical." So declared the American Medical Association's Council on Foods & Nutrition, headed by Dr. James Somerville McLester of Birmingham...
What working men need, declared the Council, are nourishing, vitamin-rich snacks between meals to still their hunger pangs, keep up their blood-sugar level, provide energy. The doctors suggested...
...idea that "night blindness" is caused only by lack of vitamin A, and can be cured by eating carrots, is stylish but false according to a group of scientists in Edinburgh. They declare that most night blindness among soldiers is psychological...
...corn and millet flour, sometimes mixed with soybean flour, and sesame or peanut oil. People who have a little money eat spinach, cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North China has little vitamin B deficiency, for the roughly milled flours are rich in vitamin B elements...