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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...
...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...
Reason: carotene, a yellow pigment occurring in association with chlorophyll in green plants, is transformed by the body (probably the liver) into vitamin A, which insures sharp human vision at night...
Unlike some vitamins, vitamin A cannot be easily synthesized; and fish livers, from which the vitamin is extracted, have been scarce since war broke out in 1939. So Arizona's three to four thousand acres of carrots (whose harvesting began last fortnight) may be the answer to every aviation command's problem of preventing night blindness in its flyers, who tend to subsist largely on peanuts and candy...
...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...