VITAMINS – VITAMIN C (GENERAL INFORMATION)
May 18th, 2009Infantile scurvy is seen in children artificially fed without a Vitamin Ñ supplement.
There are groups who believe that large doses of Vitamin Ñ are beneficial to health and indeed can treat or prevent a large number of illnesses.
Orthodox medical and nutritional experts do not accept this.
If you eat a proper diet, it is not likely that you’ll suffer from a Vitamin Ñ deficiency.
When vegetables are heated slowly, the enzyme becomes active and destroys the ascorbic acid. But if the vegetables are rapidly blanched by immersing in boiling water, then the enzyme does not render the Vitamin Ñ inactive.
The  group vitamins have been claimed to be of use in nervous disorders and as a good pick-me-up for debility, nervous exhaustion and that run-down feeling.
Vitamin Bl, or thiamine, is found in cereals, meat and eggs. A lack of thiamine produces the disease known as beri-beri, a condition seen in World War 2 in prisoners of war fed on a diet of white rice and little else.
Now in our society, the same disease, which affects the heart and the peripheral nerves, is seen mainly in those addicted to alcohol.
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