Some of the most astonishing miracles to come out of the nutrition laboratories in recent months have had to do with the mighty family of water-soluble vitamins grouped together under the head of this amazing Vitamin B Complex.

When they use the term “Vitamin B complex, scientists are tacitly admitting that they do not know all the vitamins that compose it. Yet experiments with animals indicate that the B vitamins may turn out to be the most remarkable treasure house of human health thus far discovered.

The entire B complex (not the individual and better known B vitamins) appears to be a preventive of baldness and of gray hair, at least in animals, as we shall later see. Liberal Vitamin B Complex intake in animals is believed by many researchers to encourage greater resistance to infantile paralysis. Also, in very recent experiments, it has proved remarkably effective in preventing the development of liver cancers in laboratory rats. Right now there is a ferment of activity to relate these startling findings to human beings.

Two practical and potent sources of the entire Vitamin B complex in human diets are liver and yeast. Liver is a veritable hoarder of vitamins, known and unknown—among the unknown elements being the factor that prevents per-niciôus anaemia. Early experiments were performed with calves’ liver, leading to exaggerated demand and high prices for this particular variety. Beef liver, pork liver, and chicken livers are considerably cheaper and just as important nutritionally as the organ of the aristocratic calf.

Baker’s or Brewer’s yeast is a good source of the Vitamin B complex, since the living plants of yeast have the ability to synthesize vitamins.

To be continued….