Word: vitaminous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...
...avoided talking down the other fellows' fruit in northern cities where the chief customers of both live. The California Fruit Growers Exchange broke this discreet merchandising convention this winter by advertising flatly in newspapers and magazines, on streetcar cards and billboards: "Sunkist navel oranges are 22% richer in vitamin C [anti-scurvy, anti-colds] than Florida oranges...
...week Dr. Morris Fishbein, writing "s chairman of the American Medical Association's powerfully censorious Committee on Foods as well as editor of the A. M. A.'s Journal, scolded the Californians as indecent exaggerators. Declared Dr. Fishbein: "All . . . varieties of the orange are excellent sources of vitamin C. To direct attention to slight differences in vitamin C content with the view of capitalizing them is both misleading and contrary to the interests of the public. Such unfortunate publicity tends to defeat the efforts of nutritionists and physicians to educate the public about the importance of the various...
...delighted to pump Freddie and his classmates full of haliver oil, on the slightest provocation. We heartily endorse this attitude, since by the natural laws of evolution the "precious ducklings" of Harvard (an expression aptly coined by the Crimson) will in ten years have progressed to a state where vitamin D alone can help them...
...science for neat experiments and clever machines (see p. 50). There was a burglar alarm which fills a room with ultrashort radio waves, so that a person stepping into the room interrupts the waves and actuates the signal. There was a photoelectric meter which determines the Vitamin D content of a cod-liver oil sample by passing a light beam through...