Show Daily Health Service Editors Editor's Edior's Note This is the twenty twenty- fourth of a series of 36 timely articles by y Dr Dl Morris Fishbein on Food Truths and Follies Foles dealing with wih such much discussed but little known subjects as calories clories vitamins minerals minerals minerals miner miner- als digestion and balanced diet det By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Edior Journal Joural of the American merean i Medical Association and of Hygeia the Health Magazine Historically vitamin B comes first bu but because these vitamins are recognized recognized rec rec- rec- rec in the human mind alpha- alpha they arc are here being discussed in in alphabetical order It will be re remembered remembered re- re I that vitamin Bl Bi was really rCy I discovered by who fed the of rice to the sailors and thereby prevented beri ben beri ben Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hun- ded of feeding experiments experiment have been conducted with wih this vitamin since that time Indeed much is al already already already al- al ready known concerning its is chemical character but that knowledge Is so r complicated and technical that It Is of little value to the average reader In ordinary ordinary people who live lve on diets quite quie deficient in vitamin B there will wl develop general weakness s loss los of appetite disturbance of the issues generally and apparently a lowered resistance to infection I. I H I the he vitamin B deficiency becomes become exceedingly great serious nervous nerous symptoms result which have given to o this thi vitamin the name of anti antl- ant ant- vitamin Much additional study tudy has been made however on the theother theother theother other 5 symptoms that have b been n men- men toned tinned The The conspicuous effect erect of a deficiency de- de of vitamin B is i a n. sudden loss oss of ot appetite Coincident with wih any aj loss lo of appetite there Is a a. loss los of weight and ad an Interference with nutrition The question queston of the palatability ability of the food is apparently not involved because the feeding of vitamin vitamin vita vita- via via- min B restores appetite regardless of the he fact that the same type of food Is being fed Hence Henc it is being well weI accepted that one of the Important functions of vitamin B Is to stimulate the appetite Apparently It is also related elated to stimulation of the secretIng secreting secret- secret Ing ng functions of the stomach and in intestines intestines In- In and to the power of the stomach and intestines to move the food fo along Failure of the motor functions of the stomach and Intestines in in- in results in all al sorts of serious reactions Hence It Is I important that a sufficient amount of ot vitamin B Bac be ac taken to prevent all al of the condi conch tons that can occur from such failure As with wih A A. A there seems to o be also al a relationship of vitamin B to general generl body bd conditions in including in- in i- i eluding proper metabolism or carryIng carryIng carry carry- carin car car- in Ing on of the chemistry of the body reproduction and ability to provide the Infant with wih milk mik The infant gets Its it vitamin B through the mothers mother's milk mil but investigators are ae convinced that the amount it gets may not alwa always s 's be sufficient for its It needs I |