'Living Things: Their Forms and Parts-7, ' Infinitely little Necessaries
R. C.GARRY , M.B., Ch.B., D.Sc.,
Professor of Physiology in University
College, Dundee, the University of St.
Andrews
The little things count in food as well as in other matters. This lesson shows that health depends not only on the quantity of protein, carbohydrate, and fat eaten, but also on the presence of minute amounts of salts and vitamins.
A few of the more important salts and vitamins will be described, and mention will be made of the ill effects caused by their absence. The foods capable of correcting these deficiencies will be named.