Word: vitaminous
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Gill fish and white vegetables were the only consolation afforded five anonymous Harvard students for proving that vitamin A was not essential in the emergency rations of an American soldier...
...Because U.S. chickens consume more vitamin D than the U.S. citizenry, Du Pont has developed a synthetic product to replace the cod-liver oil formerly imported and fed to poultry. Made from sterols (solid alcohols) extracted from animal fats and irradiated with ultraviolet light, it is conveniently dry rather than gooey, like fish oils. Poultrymen last year spent thousands of dollars for vitamin D products to insure strong-shelled eggs, high hatching rates, low mortality...
...people too lazy to grow celtuce, botanists had a word of advice: eat weeds, some of which also run the vitamin gamut. Some of the more nutritious: dandelion, stinging nettle, dock, milkweed, marsh marigold, wild mustard, sorrel, purslane...
Texas researchers last year found that royal jelly, the substance secreted and fed to the queen bees by the workers, is two and a half to six times richer in pantothenic acid-a vitamin of the B complex-than yeast or liver. Hambleton believes that pollen will prove to have a similar content, may soon become a major source of vitamin extracts...
...Great-grandfather of all headaches is the torture of migraine, caused by distention of blood vessels in the scalp. Its victims are agonizingly sensitive to light and sound. Injections of vitamin BI sometimes give relief (TIME...