The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-19
Vitalnin B1


supply your daily working needs and
fail to get the working power out of it
because YOU do not have enough of this
particular vitamin. The more you eat
and the more active You are the more
vitamin III you need. If you tax"
plenty of this particular vitamin, you
won't tire so easily and you won't be-
come irritable, you won't be so apt to
develop constipation and digestive dis
turbanccS.
Vitamin B2 (Also Called G and
IsibOflavin)
Like vitamin 81 your body uses this
vilamin to help change food into power
to work. 1t is also required to prevent
burning sensations of the eyes in
bright light and changes in the eye
ball which might lead to cataract. This
vitamin also is needed by the skin to
keep it in healthy condition.
Vitamin G.
This vitamin is known as the
"Scurvy-preventive" vitamin because
way back i'm 1867 we found that the
bleeding of gums and joints and the
long sea voyages could be corrected By
certain fruit jllicaA,..such as lemon or
orange. 1t wasn't until much later that
This substance which prevents these
conditions was discovered. 1t is the
vtamn which we now call vitamin G
or aScolbic acid.
Take viamin G then to keep your
blood capillaries from leaking. IL
strengthens their walls and makes
them resistant TO blood pressure. 1t
venting what the dentists call py-
orrhca.
When your blood lacks red coloring
matter it cant carry the load of
oxygen YOU need for the burning of
food in the body. To maintain Il salts
factory supply of this red pigment in
your blood You must have daily GER
tain amount of iron. But, we know
that taking adequate amounts of Vita
min c along with your iron gives bet
ter results than the iron alone.
Nitamin ID
This is sometimes called the sun
shine vitamin. When YOU expose your
skin to the direct suns rays, they will
manufacture this vitamin in sufficient
quantity for your needs. Unfortunate
ly, the rays that do this won't pass
through ordinary window glass and
don't reach our skin to any great eX-
tent because of the clothing we wear.
SO ii is well To supplement any that
may be manufactured by sun exposure
with additional amounts in the diet.
Infants that fail to get enough of
this vitamin develop what is known as
ricketts, and also bow legs and deformed
body structure. You may not be i'm
danger of ricketts, but vitamin ID is
still needed throughout life to control
your use of lime
Nitamin Il
Owing 10 the fact that it is widely
distributed in almost all common foods
there isn't much danger of deficiency
maintain normal reproductive organs
and is useful in keeping our muscle It's
sues in healthy condition.
Nitamin Il Complex
Natural products such as yeast,
wheat germ, liver and the polish that
comes off rice. are all found to- contain
in addition 10 fairly large supplies of
vitnmin III and B2, other vitamins
that the body requires SO, chemists
went TO work to separate these vita
MINIS from water extracts in their nat
ural sources. TIP to the present time
they have succeeded in actually identi.
tying some eleven vitaminS from tn.
water extract of yeast, wheat germ
and liver. Some of these, like vitaminS
Isl and B2, are being made in labora-
tories. Others can be obtained only by
using extracts of natural foods. The
mixture of all of these vitaminS, eN'
tractabe from Yeast for example, is
called the natural Il Complex.
There are some preparations which
have been called B Complex and which
are mixtures of only three or four of
the members of the natural complex
such preparations should not be called
Il Complex because the name really
means mixture of all the vitaminS
present in the water extracts of yeast