The Washington times., 1922-06-24
.BREADv|TAM|NE
TOCUTkICHEN
N0RK IN Family
me Loaf VIII Contain Food
for Everyone, Scientist
Promises. i.
BY JACK CAkBERRY.
InternatIeaaI News service.

BY JACK CAkBERRY.
InternatieasI News Service.
KANSAS CITY. No.. June A.
fcture III . great Amer esn
ONE" Ut the supper hepr. The
able. set IN the fashion SO dear
to the American heart--father at
he head. Mother, with baby In
the high chair beside her. and
along the festive board little
Jimmy and Johnny and Susie and
Sal.
pan4ust Of Future.
And for the whole fsmily one losf
4 bread and a bottle ef milk,
Il isn't picture Of poverty!
Rather II II the banquet Of the fu.
ire. The picture Ii drawn by no
.ss an authority than A. B. Hess,
raduate chemist Of Johns Hopkins
'niveysity. q professov for fiftsen
ears and new educational director
,r one Of the woFld's greatest mill
ig epgtneertng cenccrns,
Fer the day Ia not tar Distant
I In within the span OF even the
-,!dest ef us--wheH a loaf Of hread
vii contain all the food values
necessary TO the most exaeting
omach," Prof. Hess told the Ameri.
IN Association OF Cereal Chemists
anuai convention hare.
bread to Be Perfect Food.
within this are bread will be.
me the perfect food--ccmplete In
self, II 70 only q matter Of = few
hort years--molths perhAps.-when
,e American housewife can discard
very side dish--ean put away her
,,,ts and pans, even discerdiug her
oven, and still be able to please the
exacting palate Of her hushagd--
and ali with . leaf Of bread"
Pref. Hess' prediction followed
the announcement of a discovery oy
DR.. E. v. MeCollum, also OF Johns
Hopkins University. made public for
the first time here this week. +,
DIR. McColium. guest ana principal
speaker at the thiPty.seventh annual
convention Of the Helstein-F -Frieslsl
Association Of America, announced
the discovery Of q new vitamine--a
fourth ON the list ef these myster'
ious new food properties.
I'VE have discovered 9 new vita
mine," DR.. McColium told the con
vention delegates. sits discovery
has been saved from the public until
this occasion. It brings 70 the world
q new message Of hope from BODILY
diseases"
J. cissaliiss vitansines.
Or. McCollum classified vitamines
"a" .R.v and &C" and called the
new unknown food force "D."
The new vitamine 10 concerned ~
he etiologv OF bone growth and v
the food substance which prevents
ricketts, In children.
The four yitamines, an listed by
Dr., McCollum, are:
A-Prevents night blindness snd
sore eyes among children.
BLACK Of this vitamine lowers
the vitality and makes the body
subject to Infection.
ClPrevents scurvy.
D-Protects bone growth ana pre-
"Heretofore We have known Of
three vitamines. substances which
II 10 impossible to isolate by chsmi-
cal means. but which we know are
essential to growth" DIR. Mscollum
1--WE know nsw for q certainly Of
another one, and I believe We are
only on the first road to flndinG
more of these mysterious sub
~'ancss."
vitaminss Diacsversd.
/ vitamines were first discovered In
food when notice was taken Of the un'
usual results animal growers were
obtaining by feeding certain rstions
"Dvery farmer knew young live
stock would grow better ON yellow
corn than white" the doctor-chemis'
said. "Chemists did not know why.
investigation has revealed that ths
yellow coiot In corn is q vitamine--
Il 10 'Vitamine b.
can four vitamines are found IN
milk and the ieafy parts Of plants,
Dr. McCoilum announced. Their
absence from the diet OF growin1
children results In under'nutritien
had teeth and ricketts,"
Dr.. McCellum emphasized the i'm
portanee Of fOeds containing vita
mines In the diet Of sxpectAn'
msthers and also In the diet Of tbs
growing child.
"The properties Of vitamines were
made known after laborious tests,
he said. However. what II 10, OF
what o vitamine looks like is un
known. It does not respond TO chsmi
cal tests. VISA
Where vitamlpes Are Found.
yitamines are found in these foods
pr. Mccollum annopnced:
Fat. soluble A. In milk. cheese
yolks Of eggs,
Water, soluble p, milk, husks. OF
grains, leaves Of plants and spinach
"Anti-scuryy G. mtlk, citrus fruit
and potato skins, and In combina
ton with foods having the Other
Cabbage is the highest food II
vitamines; In the raw state II hal
two counts for A, one for b ant
zoe for G, Cooking lowers the first
two.
Carrots have one count each fol
the three Glasses. Tomatoes have
III three vitaminss. and the curative
qualities are not lost In choking
Lettuce has two counts for A, two
for B, but none for @.
1.-THE day is comine--and coming
soon--when the modern miller vii
combine the four vitamines In on,
eaf OF bread" Prof. Hess sait
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