When
ships that conld roan thee seas on
fasted fio
doreal vitamin problem
aren learned (oo buthd
VOLE eS which months
OF Vedls,
cleveloped The het of the hips’
crews on those vonage: depended
foo mich on Bisons aad sab
poirk, With veo fresh foods oo PLO-
ascorbic acid
vide vitamin OC
the meen deveboped scree Sones
ties mae than hall af he oen
became sick. and many died before
the ships cenimed home,
£30 Lod [ici
(her
when
defiernaes developed
nhac hines were vented to
refine Toole The ancients bnew
that the rane of sneirenne i
sweet, bar ye antl rather eden
ventions made possible the pris
fication and ervstallization of
white sugar did men realize ww had
dee
any relationship to vitamin
froseneve A century aol the con.
sumption of suena was neghaible,
For example, as Tate ws 16200 the
average vearlv sugar consumption
1m: the United
abont crehy pounds pep person.
This did
Tower the vito
States was only
RERATRIRNER not areatly
mtake of the
averoe diet. But when saear he.
came readily available ond cheap,
tis popularity grew rapidly. Today
ey se aver ane hnndied pounds
of white cach
aptly des
Vitamin
thie the
SULar per Person
vers empty calories”
scribed as not having “a
Addl Ley
amonnt of sweer dishes eaten, and
moa carlond 7
we siniply crosd oman foods rich 1m
both vitamins and minerals,
The invention of mills to remove
the {rom cereal
craigs has further depleted the
dict. White flour and polished rice
Tose most of the rich supply of the
Bavitamins their
outer portions, These refined pro-
diets have become so popular that
have practically eliminated
the wholegrain preparations from
the tables of the world.
Abn sixteen per cent of refined
calories come from our use of fats
separated from their original
The fats and oils used on
con-
tribwiie fittle to the day's vitamin
han and eerm
comecentrated in
they
SCC
onr tables and in cooking
mitihe except fop vicenin I, mainly
mr veserable oils, and vitamin A,
momrearine aud butter,
Yin ask, Did the
substitution of these heavily pro.
FRIRTa I the unrefined
case deficiencies? Indeed
COUNtTIeS
where the mam dietary dependence
my not
cise for
Fords
wot partieatariy an
was cn cereals, Beribert, a thiamine
deficiency disease, ~touek hard in
conics where white rice replaced
rice. This
SECTIONS
the
npply iv more vared and
the cunral brown
a
[IR ASE
A} . 1
Jd nied become
ahem in where
fond
places
the thovnine lost fron the grains
was torn other
{rn de
supplied by
[Vreadlul Diseases
Ae REE searched {ow ihe CAUSES
readin! dicenses such as
i]
arid and for
and cure
they vitamins.
peltagra
the nooans to prevent
Ther. discovered
When the missing factors were
: SCUrvy,
Vitarnins received from natural sources are
~vitamin CG for
N NETH
spliced
tn be preferred ic those from artificial
ihine ing for bertberi, and niacin
sources. ov pellirra the recovery was
[A 15
PELILAT Dr OF
HEAL VIL FEBRUARY