A HORROR STORY.

Arawa Guerilla, Issue 19, 1 October 1943, Page 11

A HORROR STORY.

This might happen to you! Your : tee may loosen and fall out, your limbs may become paralysed, your skin, may harden and flake off, your eyes may dry up, you may become blind— may, eventually die! Some of you may be suffering from the first symptoms already. Are you 'subject to headaches? Disinclined to work; are you afflicted by nerves, indigestion, loss of weight, general depression? Then look out! Your system is warning you. You are suffering from the scourge of modern living—vitamin starvation. A Fad? The older generation says: “What rot! We got along all right without vitamins.” So they did, but they ate only unrefined foods. To-day we employ intricate and extensive machinery to devitaminise foods and then pay half guineas for tins of white ascorbic acid or Bl pills. The advocate of 'wholemeal bread or unpealed potatoes or green vegetables daily is dubbed a crank. Actually he is a very wise guy and will be, if he isn’t already, a very healthy man. It’s Easy. Vitamin concentrates should be entirely unnecessary in N.Z. We have natural foodstuffs that will supply, all essential vitamins ; with the ' possible exception of D in winter. For instance 2 ozs. of orange, lemon or grapefruit juice (dailv) guarantees a good intake of ascorbic acid (vit. C), and a teaspoonful of dried yeast (Bl) in a glass of water tones up the nervous system for the rest of the day. Simple, isn’t it? Strawberries and Asparagus. Sounds pretty good. When you pay extraordinary prices for strawberries and asnaragus tips it mav give you some little satisfaction to know that they are both very good sources of C, but it’s much cheaper and twice as nutritious to chew parsley.