2. Marked deficiency in the supply of any vitamin leads to the development of a definite disease, e.g. rickets, and such a disease can be cured by giving a sufficient amount of the vitamin in a pure form. But there is evidence that a vitamin deficiency too small to produce the characteristic symptons of a deficiency disease will lead to vague and indefinite conditions of ill health. Individuals vary considerably in their requirements of individual vitamins. The recognition and evaluation of the symptons produced by a vitamin shortage too small to produce a typical deficiency disease is at present a major problem of nutrition studies, and is under active investigation by the Ministry of Health and the Medical Research Council.
- Civil Defence Region
- Nationwide
- Collection ID
- CAB74
- Document Reference
- CAB 74/12/49
- Document Types
- Memorandum
- File Reference
- CAB 74/12
- Former Department Reference
- SFC(41) 31
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.cab74.000012.049
- Keywords
- Butter Cheese Chemicals Children Civil Consumption Dairy Disease Eggs Family Fats Fish Food Processing Food Supplies Fruit Imports Infants Italian Armed Forces Margarine Maternity Meat Milk Mothers Natural Resources Nutrition Oil Overseas Trade Parents Potatoes Public Health Rationing Reserve Stocks Vegetables Whale Oil
- Language
- English
- Locations Discussed
- Iceland United States of America
- Organizations Discussed
- Food Policy Committee Medical Research Council Scientific Committee on Food Policy
- Pages
- 4
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Rationing Supply Agriculture Food Supply Licensing Price Control
