The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-20
VITAMINS FOR HEALTH.

~ LOWLY it is dawning upon the conscious
ness of the American people that HEALTH
- is a thing to be obtained from many
sources aside from the doctors medicines-in
fact are gradually coming to know that the
Doctor is only of hundreds of agencies which
are at hand to prevent bad health instead of try
ing to cure it after it fastens itself upon our
body in one form or another. Perhaps some
time we shall become so wise that we shall
follow the japanese custom of paying our family
physician for keeping well rather than for
curing us after we have allowed ourselves to
become ill.
Before we reach this highly enlightened age
however, it is well for us to know that food
and exercise are the two things most elemental
for all good health. During the past several
months, one of the Redwood Falls women's clubs
realizing the Importance of proper and timely
nutrition has financed the giving of milk to all
underweight school children. The results were
the best. That this work may be carried for.
ward again next year and through the future
years is important. Community financial re-
sources should be found to pay the expense that
it may not become burden upon any one
ganization.
This milk diet is essential to these children
who for one reason another are not up to
standard weight and therefore are assumed to
be undernourished. Milk is rich in of the
three vitamins which all health seekers are chas-
ing busiy these days. A little pamphlet called
EATING FOR HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY
has been handed to us and from it we take the
following paragraphs concerning these health
necessities.
Vitamins are essential to the growth, devel-
opment and maintenance of both animals and
plants. They are produced by plants and when
eaten by animals are stored for use in the
liver and other glands Milk contains vitamins
gathered from the animals food
In general, vitamins are found chiefly in
green leaves, buds and sprouts and in the
germ of the bran of cereals. Vitamins are
deficient in chops, roasts and most other meats.
Laboratory research has clearly established
the existence of three vitamins.
Vitamin A is found most abundantly in but
ter fat and in whole milk, cream and especially
butter 1t is not found in lard and is deficient
in skinned milk. Greens are also rich in
Vitamn A.
Substitutes for butter are likely to be
deficient in Vitamin A. When this vitamin
is deficient growth is checked and the eyes
become sore.
Vitamn is abundant in the bran and
germs of cereals. Animals deprived of this
element cease to grow and develop first
general neurits and finally become paralyzed
and die.
The effects upon human beings are, without
doubt essentially the same. Nervous weak
ness neuritis, lack of appetite, general malnu-
triton, are in many case due to deficiency
of vitamin B in the diet. The ordinary bill OF
fare is greatly lacking in this important ele-
ment. Such foods white bread and other
bakery products, most of the breakfast foods,
sugar, corn sirup, butter, lard, meats and some
fruits, are greatly deficient in vitamin B. This
vitamin is the one most often deficient in the
dietary and the most difficult to secure in ade-
quate quantity This fact has led to the ex,