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...Canned Vitamins. Dietitians believed heretofore that the canning of vitamin-bearing foods destroyed the vitamins? as did open cooking. Dr. Walter H. Eddy of Teachers' College, Manhattan, proved at least for Vitamin C (anti-scurvy), that oxidation makes useless this complex chemical. In ordinary cooking much oxygen reaches the food, in canning very little. Actually canned vegetables are more healthful than cooked fresh ones...
Into one of the vitamin-mongering sanitary lunchrooms which steward the middle classes of Kansas City, reeled last week a strapping street sheik with Gershwin tintinnabulations at his fingertips. "Want coffee!" he pleaded. "Want coffee for a buggy ride! Thanks for the coffee! 'Thanks for the buggy ride'! Gimme a vitamin now, dearie. Need all the vitamins you got. Need a vitamin to take on a buggy ride. 'Thanks for the buggy ride.' THANKS for the buggy vitamins! Oh, Oh, OH! 'I had a wonderful time! Wonderful treat! Juh-huh-hust to hear the patter of hor-sez feet! THANKS...
From the University of California, Drs. Herbert M. Evans and K. S. Bishop last week announced through the California State Board of Health the influence of the mysterious Vitamin X which they now have renamed E. This vitamin stimulates reproduction in animals, prevents sterility. It is a complex organic compound, like the four other known vitamins,* and occurs in lettuce, wheat germs, alfalfa and egg yolk. Because humans eat largely of these foods, the discovery has little bearing on their habits...
...Vitamin A helps young animals grow, keeps them from certain eye affections; its absence is a factor in rickets. Vitamin B stimulates the metabolic processes, especially those concerned in digestion and assimilation of food. Vitamin C prevents scurvy...
...Dayton, Assistant Dean of the Yale Medical School, reported last week that Japanese researches into the causes of cancer have established a connection between cancer and nutrition. Scientists of the National Nutrition Institute of Japan have been able to produce cancer in rats by giving them foods deficient in vitamin A. This is the second time that cancer has been produced experimentally in living organisms, and according to Dr. Dayton, it will exert a vital influence on the study of the disease...