Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1915-01-15
copyright. 1914. by A. S. Gray)
VITAMlNE FOODS.

structive and work up for themselves
the simplest inorganic elements into
food. Animals, on the other hand, are
essentially destructive and can make
nse of these same elements only by de-
Btroying the combinations arranged by
the plants and recombining and ex.
creting them in such forms as are alb.
solutely useless for animal food until
they are once more worked up by the
plants. All the carbohydrates, the
starches and sugars. all the nitrogen
compounds and the proteins, are ulti.
mately provided for the whole animal
world by the plant world. Obviously,
We have here cycle analogous to cy.
c,es to be found everywhere through
out nature, from which we may-but
seemingly will not-learn. In this cy'
Gle the animal is found to be parasitic,
and man is about the most hopelessly
parasitic Of all, because his sublime
egotism blinds him to the fact that he
is but q single link in an incompre-
hensible chain Of universal life.
In our ignorance we have presumed
to interfere with natures plans. with
dire results, and only very recently
have we generally begun to suspect
that the key to the solution Of our
serious Ills, both physical and social,
and covering disease, poverty and
crime, is to be found in a comprehen-
sion of the subject of nutrition. Very
obviously, then, the study Of nutrition
is worth while and must begin at the
foundation, with the breathing and
drinking of plants and their reactions
to light, heat and gravitation.
Eykeman In 1892 called attention tc
o peculiar relationship between beri
beri and polished rice. and he followed
II up from time to time for some four
teen years. Gryns Joined in the ques
; In 1910, and in 1911 Fraser and Stan
ton quite definitely proved that th'
/ corticle layer Of rice contains a sub
: stance which cures beri-beri in mai
and the polyneuritis that is produces
: in birds by feeding them on polishe'
q rice. Then Casimir Funk In 1911 ist
q lated from the material ground fror
q the surface Of rice in polishing 1t de-
= mite crystalline body with which h
9 cured polyneuritis induced in pigeon
}. by feeding them on ordinary polishe
n rice.
4 Funk named this substance witt
O mine." because It constitutes sub
l. tance In foods indispensable to LII,
o The vitamines are contained In tn
o hard. colored shell that is ground o
r rice to produce nice white produc
% and It is In the hard protective CO;
70 OF the wheat berry which constitute
's about 16 per cent OF the grain. Th
E. bran Of the milling process. as r
a. moved by the steel rolls, includes Il
d aleurone layer, together with the pei
carp, the tesla and the germ; the'
are starchless but rich in fats and mi
erals. and besides they contain Il
~ newly discovered vitamines.
d. The vitamines are nitrogenous DO
lie les Of highly complex structure al
ly no diet is complete without thei
IN vitamines are found in plants. al
,x especially In their seeds. So far as
a known at present, animals are inca
n able Of making them and obtain the
rt only by feeding on plants. Vitamin
IL occur in meat. fresh milk and In q
yolks Of eggs. They are found
nd whole grains, potatoes, carrots. bear
m peas. lentils and the like; also in lin
ng and In other fresh fruit juices.
ed vitamines are destroyed by expt
W ure for from ten to twenty minutes
n temperature OF $50 to 2G5 degre
ve Fahrenheit and also by exposure
In extreme dryness. Cattle may suif
er from a vitamineless diet following
ot- long drought.
ne Wherever any cereal robbed OF
colored aleurone or vitamine lay
forms tho chief food Of a people. the
n deficiency disease appears. 7
chief increase Of beriberi. caused
N. eating polished rico and resulting
IN thousands OF deaths annually in Jap
an and other countries, comedies with
Of replacement Of the primitive sto
m. grinding by the modern steel rol
eb process. The stone mills ground I
10 entiro grain; the modern rolls ena'
da. tho miller TO reject from the -four pr
2e- tically everything but the starch.
'ol. A diet largely composed OF sterili1
dy. milk, condensed milk. corn hou
or. starch and sugar, or OF any foods 81
hit. ected for long period to tempe
itt, lures above $50 degrees, may be G.
er. sidered vitamineless diet, and, as su
,ie. will predispose to tuberculosis and
ale deficiency diseases.
ar. White fours, corn fours and !
mi. shed rice are deficient foods. beca'
der The vitamines have been removed
,rs. The milling process. But In the II
Of all the proof we still have amat'
and political experts" some OF tn
at In high places. who persist in stat
that white flour and polished rice
9TH. pafe and healthful foods. White 40
the and polished rice are pure foods,
'em they are not wholesome foods, beca'
they are not complete.