Word: vitamined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunshine vitamin, is the only one which the body is known to synthesize. Produced through exposure to sunlight, it is also found in tuna, herring, cod and halibut liver oils...
Bewildering Bs. Most complex of all are the vitamins B. In learned papers last week scientists discussed examples of vitamin B activity...
...Para-aminobenzoic acid reputedly turns grey hair dark again-but it raises blood pressure and, if sulfa drugs are given, it combats their curative powers. Another vitamin, pyridoxine, turns hair grey-but it is essential for red blood cells and digestion...
...some strange reason, reported Professor Paul Gyorgy of Western Reserve, rats who get no riboflavin (vitamin B2) invariably become lousy. This condition never occurs with other vitamin deficiencies, so it is not related to general physical weakness. Doses of riboflavin quickly drive the lice away. Dr. Gyorgy hopes the treatment will soon be tried on human beings, for lice carry the germs of typhus. >Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud of Cornell told how three groups of men in three separate laboratories recently turned up one of the original vitamin substances, biotin (recognized 40 years ago). Dr. du Vigneaud, who analyzed...
...Singapore for relay to Batavia went 200 grams vitamin BI (value: $1,340), shipping documents, samples of wire brushes, samples of butter flavor, glow lamps, snap-fastener samples...