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Admirers of old-fashioned bread point out that not only does today's mass-produced bread taste as pallid as it looks but that it is less nutritious than the kind mother made. The bleached white flour U. S. bakers use contains only 12 to 15% as much vitamin B1 as whole-wheat flour. Last week the National Research Council, a group of scientists organized by Woodrow Wilson in 1916 for Preparedness, announced that part of this deficiency will soon be made...
...exuberant fellow who used to be Winston Churchill's private secretary and was expected to go far in politics. But Bob Boothby has sometimes been a little careless about the means he employs to make money. Once he made speeches in the House of Commons plugging a vitamin product in which he had been financially interested. When Britons learned that he had severed his vitamin connections they forgave the irregularity...
...oxygen. In raw milk, bacteria then consume most of the oxygen. But pasteurization removes most of the bacteria, so the oxygen content of pasteurized milk remains high. Oxidation of the fat content may then cause papery, oily, metallic or tallowy flavors; worse, it may diminish the natural proportion of vitamin C. Obvious answer, proposed by scientists at Cornell University: take the air out of the milk. They announced development of vacuum equipment which de-aerates 1,500 quarts...
Stiff guarantees were given by the Red Cross. Its relief shipments are confined to medical supplies in the strict sense, dried or canned milk, children's clothing, vitamin concentrates. Because the British fear Nazi shenanigans around distributing points, distribution must be by the Red Cross itself. To Spain, where Franco's relief is now administered by social agencies, some of whose angels of mercy have Falange (fascist) symbols embroidered on their aprons (see cut p. 19), the Red Cross will send six U. S. experts to supervise the job and each Spanish agency distributing Red Cross food will...
...Vitamins for Britain committee worked on plans to send 1,000,000 vitamin tablets sweetened and flavored with cinnamon to British children each month. Price of enough vitamins to supply a child for one year...