VITAMINS

Vitamins are everything and nothing. One all the high-pressure advertising and Farfetched claims and stripped away, vitamins emerge as what they really are: everyday Chemicals found in minuscule amounts in almost everything you eat. Vitamins are so Common that it is almost impossible to get them out of food. The closest anyone has come so far to “vitamins-free” dishes in white flour, white rice, white cornmeal, white sugar, and all the other are to much of a process for food. Even more important, if you keep up all the vitamins you need each day in a pile, that pile would be smaller then period at the end of this sentence. To look at it another way, divide an 1000 parts: your maximum vitamins requirement is a mere 7 of those parts every 24 hours. You could store all the vitamins you need each year in a thimble-and still have plenty of room left over. Everybody really needs vitamins. They play an indispensable role in millions of everyday chemical reaction that occur in the body. Every important event, from digestion to reproduction to ready to walking, requires one vitamin or another. If you were to eat a diet totally lacking in vitamins, your life expectancy would be measured in weeks, if not days. Back in 1940 when the German Luftwaffe was destroying London by relentless and methodical bombing, the Royal Air Force suddenly got the upper hand, particularly in high air battle. The rigidly censored British newspaper gleefully revealed to all the world that the British advantage was the result of feeding carrots supposedly rich in vitamin A to the fighter pilots to prevent “night blindness”. From that moment on, a generation of American youngsters were conscientiously overdosed with raw carrots to protect them from night blindness, a disease that has not been a serious threat since the year 1349, when an epidemic occurred in Holland.