Show D Q Q Y THE A ape B C of on VALUES i among the elements Elemn ts necessary to he healthy alth the isy mysterious vitamin plays a leading role ID you ever see a baby bab with D DID rickets how did it effect you you fuel sorry orry for the poor little thin thing because sonic thing thine was lacking out of its wee life something wa was wai i lacking a very vital tiling thing to td all life and health and growth vitamins and who was to blame in almost every instance instance the mother though probably she never knew it and would very much have resented it had you told tier her so again you often felt sorry for tile the little anemic child who looked half starved and was always tired the mother probably told you there was no reason for fir such a condition because the child ate heartily site she understand it but had she taken lier her child to a doctor doubtless he would have diagnosed th the a case as lack ot of vitamins not so very long ago we thought our diet was complete if it contained proteins carbohydrates fats fata water and chirvai organic tic salts in proper proportions then cattle came tl the le discovery that we must also have when vitan vitamins lins were vere fir first st discovered they were vere known by scientific names which nobody but bill tl the le scientist understood so as a matter of convenience tile they were designated by utters letters A 11 C D ind and altier X all our knowledge of thell hun is based upon experiments in feed feeding ing animals nobody has ever been able to isolate and analyze them thein we vc know that certain frieds nod ar litch n i vilai vitamins through their uffe effects ets vitamins ar arc m 1 in mill ini m eggs and vcR etab acs and and to a lofs les er CT depree degree in meats liver is apeci especially illy hinh hi ith in vitamins hut Ill illness less properly cooked tile the value is depreciated the same is is true of in fact it hat recently been discovered that most ca canned tinei vegetables are arc higher it in vitamins than home ecio ook ked cd the reason is obvious when wheat one understands that it is through oxidation caused by the oxy oxygen gett in the air air that insi are arc destroyed destroy cd and not by excessive heat the modern sanitary can used by all canners has bus rio no vent hole and the foods are arc cooked in the can thus excluding air and preventing oxidation every housewife knows what would happen if she tried to cook in in on an air tight vessel eap exp expansion ancion would cause an explosion Cai canners iners use nn all exhausting process ily hy which the lie filled cans calls without tops leips are arc given a first hea hratin tilli that expands tile the food to brini brimful ful white while this food is still hot the tops tolls to the he cans are put on by machinery F so that practically cally no air air Is is left in the coli container the food is then heated all the way front from boiling point to degrees degreck fahrenheit when the cans are arc cooled tile space that would have held air air is a vacuum this is what causes that sound when one starts to open a fact vacuum burn packed can thus the canner saves tin vitamins its the lie housewife allows to through the oxidation in tile the air while cooking an instance of this Ss is in tomatoes tomatoes cs are arc rich in vitamins almoite equal crual to butter fat in ill milk juice from a can of tomatoes td es cooked as above and which had been in stor storage age a year was fed to a pigeon suffering fron from 1 pov neuritis is with the result il that at t the le pigeon recovered another ex experiment cr i in nt tried on guinea pigs suffering a r ing fw f w scurvy prod hat canned glinah pini ili two and a liala times the vitamin ill potency of tile horne cooked this should be valuable information to tile lie mother the baby suf fer ferine front rum rickets and anddie the atie anemic child are arc similar instances to the pigeon and the guinea pigs vitamins were lacking it is only within the past three or buur years that tle aluc baltic of strained mcd tomato juice for or babics sua ring cring loin rickets has been discovered the role vitamins pla in autri tion is very different from tile roles played hy by oilier food element vit amina supply tile the body with neither energy nor ue building sub st va dut but by soine means as yet unknown they ell ade the body to tp tit iliAe the enemy and tissue building qui litis ot of food which would be qu in tc c ui n elet out them they are arc like the bijil plug lit in your our aar the park elul alone does docs not run the car does docs the gasoline yas olinc but bill what till the bpark plug does docs is to il alitt tin till Ka gas olinc ciline and to produce luce a chatine whereby it becomes a source of energy that Ss Is taw tl relation ot cli vit a illis to the other food elements it ignites them to energy producers producer id and i d starts rind and keeps tile the hunink en cri giua running it is not necessary to know any more about vital vitamins ilits tha chasi that they ire essential to tile the human fiuman system and that they are arc found in ill milk ain il tad and eggs egg beca because of the food talen by the co cow v and the chicken and I 1 in ll 11 all preen green and fruits As ex e hent heat doc tut not work the lie destruction st bilat oxidation does docs tilt are higher in ill canned than lit in cusac cooked foods they ar arc C quite w a important to tile adult as it tu child and a well weil bian Ln lince 1 tl art I 1 willi will milk and plenty of vel tablet is sure mire to supply all the vil nii in i mt did |