Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-09-02 | Page 4 | Health Advice

t HEALTH 1 ADVICE By Dr Morris Fishbein Editor Journal of the American Midi Mid cal eal al Association Since vitamins were first A B C D D' and E B the average person is inclined to believe that each of these substances is 13 some thing very definite and associated with certain illnesses or states of ot oj health However today many Of ot them have been broken down i into several parts Very early it was established 1 that vitamin B consists of at I least two different which were named Bl El and B and later called Bl Bi and G. G These two factors were said specifically to be associated with the pr presence ence of a condition called and another condition called pel- pel lagra J Now it is known that vitamin B has many different pa parts The Tha first called BI Bl is the ben anti beri ben vitamin that prevents beri beri- ej I 1 r. r beri ben in ira man and j fa In animals Another part Is Is kno known I as riboflavin a a. compound necessary necez sary for growth in animals tad and v i believed to be associated with r the oxidation redu reduction oxidation system of of living cells It fl has been found that there then is h il another factor which is effective in the treatment of pellagra ii in inman r man and black tongue in dog-a dog factor which is necessary for rapid l r gains in weight and the nor normal nutrition of pigeons A vita vitamin Yo tentatively called prevents a in form of specific paralysis in ra rats raj and chickens i J. J A portion called is necessary f to maintain weight in pigeons A factor called prevents a sort Jort of skin disease which occurs fa is j rats and another factor has been keen an e temporarily called vitamin Walso w- w JI also absolutely y Ion for for lie growth in rats J Only two of these factors han havi I t J Dr r been shown definitely to be individual indi lidi- vidual chemical substances Only Oily r two have been found definitely important to deficiency Ie man namely man namely vitamin Bl Bi which 01 tJ j is the beriberi factor and the rfd If dr PP factor which is associated with an a. a pellagra S Nevertheless the factor called Yer tr riboflavin has also been found to tobe a abe be of exceeding importance of ot d. d I. late in human beings particularly ti in regard to certain nutritional OI disturbances that may arise in the th JL presence of alcoholism or in vari vai various vari It II P D Dens ous ous ens conditions affecting the nervous amous nerv ner Tt ous system Hoi Hoin ol Because vitamin Bl Bi is known to tobe n be definitely associated with ben ben- benIk l Ik iL Ma beri ben and with many nosY ritz tests testa have been made to determine deter deter- iC mine whether or not this vitamin is of value in treating condition m in the human body in which neuritis I SG Us is a factor EE e The most important study wo wu Ia e apparently that which revealed iI that to n alcoholic addicts have symptoms toms of which are e at attributed at t e to a lack of vitamin Bl Bi S' S rather than to any specific tO toxic tio O action of the alcohol on the t tSu Su it ties of the nervous system the alcoholic person t iio o obtain a sufficient amount of th tw y Si arda vitamin eo Copyright 1938 for The Telegram St