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General Vitamin Information
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How were vitamins discovered?
Diseases such as scurvy, rickets and pellagra have been known for centuries, It is only this century that the vitamins necessary for preventing them have been identified and isolated. Vitamins were originally discovered through animal experiments. Scientists fed animals diets known to cause certain diseases in man and then treated those animals with the nutrient missing from the diet. If the nutrient was found to cure or prevent the disease, it was identified as a vitamin.
Nicola Reavley, with a foreword by Stephen Holt, M.D.
The New Encyclopedia of Vitamins, Minerals Supplements, & Herbs.
New York: M. Evans and Company Inc., 1998. |
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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