The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-17

, the life, health and efficiency makers,
minus all complex figures Of mathe-
| matics.
Vitamines are the trick GOD ingre-
dents, without which your baby may
appear fat while being less In health
| than the wiry, energetic, but scrawny
infant well-fed upon milk, fresh yeast,
orange Juice, carrots and buttered po-
tatoes.
True VltamIne Bearers.
Vitamines are OF at least two kinds.
There are those soluble In the water,
plentiful in fresh yeast cakes and those
soluble In the oils or fats of milk.
cream, yeast, butter, carrots an d
orange Juice. They are also called
anti scorbutics, because they prevent
and cure scurvy Scurvy. once the ter
because nearly every. one can AFFORD
yeast cakes. fresh milk or oranges.
Those OF you who frequent the pc
riodical rooms Of public libraries may
know that according to >such ponderouss
America pioio ss pioteties. the
Journal Of Home Economics, the Pop
ular Science Monthly. the Scientific
American. and others. that there are
mines than fresh yeast.
The homely kitchen yeast cake. unto
which mother alone paid homage until
the last year or two, has been discov-
cred to yield more food, more Vita
FOR example, fresh, moist yeast has
over three times as much antiscorbutic
vitamine as fresh but dried yeast.
Both the age and the method OF prep
aration may have much effect on this
valuable food item.
Dried milks keep their vitamine value
and may be used for children II orange
Juice 10 fed. Condenser milk, on the
other hand, possesses little antiscor-
In Preparing Food.
Potatoes may or may not guard
against scurvy. according TO how they
Is thumbs down" for the boiled po-
tato, especially with the skin Off.
Too high temperatures and too long
cooking are death to the vitamine
which may however. survive cooking
example. OF four pigeons on the same
ration OF corn and barley and peas, the
two whose food was heated In pres
sure cooker at fifteen pounds pressure
days. but the two whose food was
heated only thirty-five minutes were
doing well after $50 days.
Furthermore, the same food varies
not only with age and the treatment 1t
has received. but with its production
vegetables with the soil. and animal
food with the feeding Of the animal:
Butter fat, the great purveyor OF
growth promoting vtamlneB, varies IN
kind with the feeding Of the COW.
The humble cabbage. eaten raw, car
rots, fresh milk, and fresh yeast are
all notable sources OF these "protec-
tive foods '-- Our scientists are hot on
the trail of tho vitamines, but the end
isn't yet, apparently not for n long time
yet, since some Of these facts are the
result of the work OF Marguerite Davis.
Of the home economics laboratory OF
the University OF Wisconsin. who Is still
busy at her task.
so Il goes Discovery crowds on dis
covery. The opinion. guess or super
stition OF this morning Is annihilated--
perhaps TO your chagrin and disap-
point-by the facts brought 70 light this
afternoon. At this instant tho humble
yeast cake Is TAT bat"
ANSWERS TO HEALTH QUESTIONS
d. II. II. Q.--Can you suggest some
thing for nervousness?
A.-The treatment Is diversion. atten-
ton transferred and directed into new
channels. new friends, now faces, new
scenes, new habits changed sleeping
rooms and different diet. These
things will in time relieve such condi-
lions,
BUDDIT. Aft you viii send a
stamped. self addressed envelope with
IL A.