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...members of the American Medical Association last week. He reminded them of the shock ing but well-known fact that thousands of U.S. children are still weak, potbellied and spindly, because many mothers do not know enough to give their babies a daily teaspoon of vitamin-D-rich cod-liver oil or halibut-liver oil as a sunshine substitute in the dark winter months. And because many children refuse to take the nasty stuff...
...vitamin C, found abundantly in citrus fruits and tomatoes; breads, flour and cereal, most or preferably all whole grain or enriched; some butter or oleomargarine with vitamin A added; other foods to satisfy the appetite." With such a diet, added vitamins are not necessary, except vitamin D (in cod-liver oil) for babies and for older children and adults during winter months. According to most dietitians, a basic diet costs at least 24? a day per person. But for the 45,000,000 undernourished. 5? a meal is all they can spend...
...traced through the body by detection of the rays which they give off. (In the past, scientists have lost track of food after it left the alimentary canal.) The Harvard biochemists fed radioactive baking soda to rats, found that the carbon dioxide in it was being used in the liver to build carbohydrates...
...plants this process is achieved by a catalyst, chlorophyll, which uses energy from sunlight to make the food on which all life, plant and animal, depends. In this sense, the animal world has always been considered a great parasite upon the plant world. The catalyzing enzymes in the liver, equivalent of chlorophyll in plants, are still undiscovered, but the new discovery indicates that, although man is parasitic, he is at least...
...over 200 Ib. of yellow-marrow from cattle bones, the scientists extracted about one ounce of alcohol. This they separated into two component parts: batyl alcohol and chimyl alcohol. When they examined the chemical structure, the scientists found that these alcohols were the same as those found in shark-liver oil over 15 years ago by two Japanese scientists...