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VITAMINS & SUPPLIMENTS

People act as if taking vitamins and suppliments are a new thing when in fact history is all telling. Some act as if eating 3 meals a day is sufficent to cover all our needs because of the diversity of our food supply - but in fact the food supply as a global whole has become nutrient deficent compared with food from years gone by as the soil has become deficient. In man's quest for godlike status we have added fertilizers and genetically modified our crops with mixed results at best.Read More On Soil depletion

Our society also gorges itself on fast food and microwave food which also deplete the vitamins and minerals. The value of eating a certain food to maintain health was recognized long before vitamins were identified. The ancient Egyptians knew that feeding a patient liver would help cure night blindness, an illness now known to be caused by a vitamin A deficiency. Scurvy became a problem when ocean voyages became popular during the Renaissance period. Scurvy was an illness that occurred when travelers did not have access to fresh fruits and vegetables. below are some history facts that will hopefully help you to understand why vitiman rich food, raw foods, supplements, and proper cooking are esential to good health. If you constantly microave your food, eat irradated food or eat processed food you may not be eating as healthy as you think! History also showes that vitamin supplements are also long time tried and true!!!

James Lind (1716 - 1794)
In 1749, the Scottish surgeon James Lind discovered that citrus foods helped prevent scurvy. In 1753, Lind published his Treatise on the Scurvy, which recommended using lemons and limes to avoid scurvy, which was adopted by the British Royal Navy. This led to the nickname Limey for sailors of that organization. Lind's discovery, however, was not widely accepted by individuals in the Royal Navy's Arctic expeditions in the 19th century, where it was widely believed that scurvy could be prevented by practicing good hygiene, regular exercise, and by maintaining the morale of the crew while on board, rather than by a diet of fresh food. As a result, Arctic expeditions continued to be plagued by scurvy and other deficiency diseases. In the early 20th century, when Robert Falcon Scott made his two expeditions to the Antarctic, the prevailing medical theory was that scurvy was caused by "tainted" canned food.

Kanehiro Takaki in 1884 links Japanese sailors' diet of polished rice to the disease beriberi. He adds milk and vegetables to their diet and eliminates the disease. Much later, in 1933, Robert R. Williams synthesizes and names the key nutrient, (vitamin B1), completing research begun by Japanese J. Suzuki and colleagues in 1912.

Polish-American scientist Casimir Funk suggests in 1912 that dietary deficiencies in substances that he names "vitamins" may cause beriberi, rickets, pellagra, sprue and other diseases.

Dr.Joseph Goldberger's tracing of pellagra among poor, corn-dependent people in the Southern states to a dietary deficiency in 1915. The missing vitamin component, niacin (vitamin B3) is not indentified until 1938, however, by Conrad Elvehjem---JW.

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