Calories, proteins, carbohydrates, fats andvitamines have been taken out of the dictionary and put into the kitchen.
To my knowledge I had never consciously eaten vitamines unless a vitamine was what gave guaranteed strictly fresh string beans, as served at a table-d'hôte restaurant, that peculiar flavor.
Kennedy, as though the story of vitamines was an old one to him.
It has long been a question," he hurried on, "whether these vitamines are tangible bodies or just special arrangements of molecules.
Just how far the potato will go in providing the specific vitamines essential for growth is still unsettled.
Chick and Hume in England claim that when the amount of food given contains originally just sufficient vitamines to cover the growth factor the use of soda in the cooking water does serious harm to these vitamines.
For breast-fed babies it is necessary to adjust the diet of the mother to include more of the vitamine bearing foods, since milk contains vitamines only in proportion to the amount eaten in food.
Thus, it is essential for the nurse to understand where and how both the foodstuffs and the vitamines occur in nature, in order to make use of them more advantageously.
Milk from cows whose diet has been deficient in vitamines shows a like deficiency in vitamine content--the same is true of mother's milk.
In fact, it is claimed by those who have experimented most with this matter that these two sources will supply the required amount ofvitamines under all conditions.
Consequently, vegetables and fruits that supply these body regulators and foods that supply vitamines should be provided.
Meat contains vitaminesin very small amounts, for vitamines are produced only by plants.
The cooking of animal foods destroys the vitamines which they contain.
The vitamines of rice and other cereals are removed with the bran; hence an exclusive diet of polished rice gives rise to beriberi.
The vitamines found in flesh foods represent only the small residue of the supplies which the animal gathered from the grass, corn and other vegetable products which constitute its food.
The discovery of vitamines must stand as one of the most masterly achievements of modern science, even outshining in brilliancy the discovery of radium.
Vitamines do not enter into the composition of the body as do other food principles, but they are somehow necessary to activate or render active the various subtle elements which are essential to good nutrition.
The man with whom I connect certain of these vitamines of the mind was Sir George Grove, the compiler of the Dictionary of Music.
So in the food of the mind there are vitamines which we can recognise, but not analyse, and, therefore, cannot wholly understand.
The vitamines of food, we know, are not strictly analysable, though their presence can be detected.
Just as there are vitamines that are important for growth, so are there vitamines that are necessary for cell maintenance.
A striking example of bodily injury directly due to the absence of these vitamines from the food is seen among Orientals whose diet is apt to be made up of rice plus small amounts of other substances.
Although vitamines exist in foods only in minute quantities it is necessary to use foods containing all the kinds of vitamines to promote growth and to keep in health.
What vitaminesare present in spinach and celery leaves and stems?
It is most necessary that foods rich in vitamines be included in diet.
In addition to protein and fat, cheese contains ash and vitamines (see Division Seven).
Little is known regarding the use of vitamines by the body cells, other than that they are indispensable for the growth and maintenance of the body.
Since vitamines are so essential in food, the effect of cooking and drying upon the vitamine content of a food needs to be considered.
Indeed, the question of whether or notvitamines of all vitamine-rich foods are destroyed by cooking and drying has not been determined.
Although whole milk contains more fat and vitaminesthan does skim milk, the latter has as much protein, lime, and sugar as whole milk.
Subdivide foods rich in vitamines into foods rich in fat-soluble A, water-soluble B, water-soluble C.
A diet consisting of cereals and fruits, as for example a bread and fruit diet, while apparently satisfactory for a brief period, must inevitably result in failure because of lack of lime, iron and special vitamines found in the green leaf.
They find that foods contain certain subtle elements known as vitamines which are absolutely essential to the full development and prolonged life of an animal.
They are complete foods, supplying the essential vitamines as well as other necessary elements.
If in addition to the question of intake we must take into account that the vitamines may suffer various vicissitudes, it may come to pass that pathological conditions at times destroy or render them partially inactive.
The theory has been advanced that the action of the vitamines is catalytic.
Just as the mere fact that a lack of vitamines leads to scurvy and to beriberi does not signify, in theory or in practice, the existence of pathogenetic interrelationship.
The recent work of Dutcher falls under this caption, differing merely in the fact that he attributes to the vitamines an indirect action.
It might be thought that the blood--the purveyor of the vitamines to the tissues--would be particularly rich in these essential factors.
As previously stated, there are many who believe that the carbohydrates, especially starch, have this harmful effect by requiring a large amount of the various vitamines for their metabolism.
This applies not only to the relationship ofvitamines to these disorders, but to their identification and demarcation pathologically as well as clinically.
Epstein |1918|Very detailed | A new era in the pathology of scurvy was inaugurated by the availability of experimental scurvy and also by the stimulation occasioned by the recent conception of vitamines and the so-called deficiency diseases.
If we turn to studies on the other vitamines for enlightenment as to the possibility of excretion, we find that Muckenfuss recovered the water-soluble factor from ox bile and from human urine.
None of the vitamines has been isolated in a pure state.
The action is regarded as coming about in an indirect manner, being accomplished through the hormone action of the vitamines on one or more glands of internal secretion.
Eggs form a very valuable food not only for protein, but for mineral salts and vitamines as well.
Lack of these vitamines brings on various evidences of mal-nutrition.
During the past few years, it has been found that we must have in our foods a certain amount of substances whose chemical nature is at present unknown and to which the name of vitamines has been given.
But it has been reported that a yeast cell will not grow in an artificial medium which contains all the essential nutrients for yeast but has no vitamines of other plant origin in it.
This means that the animal organism is altogether unable to elaborate its own vitamines, and extended investigations have indicated that the vitamines necessary for animal uses are wholly of plant origin.
The addition of barley wort, containing the vitamines from barley germs, or any other similar supply of vitamines, induces rapid growth and the storage of vitamines in the growing yeast masses.
Recently, investigations of the functions of vitamines in the growth of plants have been begun.
Until very recently, the investigations of vitamines have dealt exclusively with their relation to human nutrition; although it has been generally believed that the vitamines themselves are elaborated only by plants.
Baker's yeast is probably dependent upon a supply of vitamines in the medium in which it is to grow.
Yeast itself, after having grown in barley wort, is one of the most important sources of vitamines for animal uses or for purposes of investigations of vitamine activity.
There is, as yet, no conclusive evidence on many of the matters concerning the relation of vitamines to plant growth.
Elliott: I am writing a paper on Vitamines to be read before the Mothers' Club, an organization of Bradford Mills mothers.
Are all the classes of vitamines necessary to life and will a child fed on foods containing all the known vitamines be better conditioned than one fed on only one kind?
The relation of antineuritic and water-soluble B vitamines to the yeast growth promoting stimulus.
While the pasteurization does not appreciably affect the content of "A" or "B" vitamines, the variability in content of these vitamines in milk indicates that it may at times be necessary to supplement them in the diet.
It must be capable of being supplemented by either or both vitamines in response to the particular test it is devised to meet and when both are present in proper amounts it must produce normal growth and serve as a control.
This statement applies to allvitamines and presents one of the live subjects of investigation for the cooking schools and the food factories.
The combined result of all these studies was to eliminate both the "A" and the "B" as the vitamineswith antiscorbutic power without suggesting a better hypothesis than McCollum's.
In the case of the vitamines we have many researches to this end but extremely meagre results.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vitamines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
