Word: vitaminous
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...candy and chewing gum were spiked with synthetic vitamin K, U.S. dentists might have to go out of business: tooth cavities, which afflict 95% of the U.S. population, might be prevented. So claimed Chemist Leonard Samuel Fosdick* & colleagues of Northwestern University in a preliminary report in Science last week. Vitamin K, found naturally in alfalfa, hog liver, cabbage, tomatoes and possibly in unrefined sugar, is valuable for its properties as a blood-clotter, especially in hemorrhages of newborn infants. When taken into the mouth, Dr. Fosdick discovered, vitamin K serves another function-it prevents sugars from turning into tooth-corroding...
...Fosdick has tried the vitamin on "several hundred" patients, but is not ready to reveal details on his clinical results. "After a year of experiment," he said, "things look very promising...
...excellence pennant, but U.S. farmers last week had good reason to be proud as roosters: the Department of Agriculture announced that on fewer acres than they plowed in 1918 they will raise 40% more food this year for the United Nations-the biggest, most diversified, most healthful, most vitamin-rich crop ever harvested anywhere by any people...
...outstripped rye. Soybeans, peanuts and flaxseed, grown mostly for their oil, now replace the coconut, palm and linseed oil imported by the tankerful before the war. But soybeans also make top-notch fodder and Henry Ford has even made a soybean plastic automobile. Flax makes linen; peanuts make tasty, vitamin-rich soldier rations...
Sprue, a wasting sickness (cause unknown) that chiefly attacks white people in towns & cities. It produces constipation, melancholy, low blood pressure, muscle cramps, diminution in the size of the liver. Constantly increasing in the temperate zones of Latin America, sprue seems to be related to vitamin deficiency, can be checked by an increase of fruits and vegetables in the diet...