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...Vitamin Days. Many a thoughtful man wonders how his ancestors got along without knowing about vitamins. Answer: They did not get along very well. Professor Cummings points out that although they ate huge quantities of pork, corn and a sprinkling of game, they were, on the average, smaller and frailer than the average U. S. citizen today. The death rate among the young was very high. Those who survived "benefited from a vigorous life with plenty of sunshine and fresh air." Also to their benefit, they ate nutritious, unrefined sugars and molasses, bread made from vitamin-rich whole meal...
...Peeling potatoes, to modern housewives, is a sin. Potato jackets, they firmly believe, are rich in anti-scurvy Vitamin C, while the potato's inside is little more than starch and water. Last month the British Medical Journal laughed at this assertion, referred to some new research of a food chemist, Mamie Olliver. The ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) content of potatoes, she found, is more than skin deep. In fact, said the Journal, the amount of vitamin "increases from without inwards. This admirable vegetable-. . . by no means to be neglected for its contribution of iron and aneurin [ Vitamin...
...years researchers of Chicago's Swift & Co. hunted for a chemical which would delay the spoiling of lard by oxidation and would protect lard's linoleic constituent, rich in vitamin F. They finally found what they wanted in gum guaiac, made from the sap of the tropical American guaiacum tree. Swift's President John Holmes said that lard treated with tiny amounts of gum guaiac was odorless, bland in flavor...
Nicotinic acid, one of the elements of the Vitamin B complex, is found in liver, yeast, milk, green vegetables, fish and lean meat. It is a cure for pellagra, a diet-deficiency disease common in the southern U. S. but virtually unknown in Britain. Since the filmy, bleeding gums of trench mouth are similar to the symptoms of early pellagra, Dr. King had a hunch that trench mouth, too, might be caused by nicotinic acid deficiency which broke down gum tissue, paved the way for bacterial invasion. So he fed small amounts of the acid dissolved in water...
...raids and the scores of malnutrition diseases. These range from nerve destruction and insanity to sterility, night blindness, softening of the bones. Danes have not forgotten the terrible eye disease which swept their country in 1917, when they exported so much of their fresh butter, rich in Vitamin A. To forestall such eye trouble, margarine companies in Britain will fortify their products with the same proportion of vitamins found in butter...