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The Willner Window Product Reference Catalog, Autumn, 2013
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• Willner Chemists •
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supplements. First, supplements can help
prevent nutritional deficiency diseases such
as scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, and rickets. In
developed countries, this is more a theoreti-
cal point than a practical one. Second, and
more important to most of us, supplements
can prevent subclinical deficiencies, promote
optimal health and function, prevent disease,
and retard the aging process. And third, sup-
plements can actually be used therapeutical-
ly, like drugs, to treat and reverse various
health problems, often without the toxicity
and side effects associated with stronger
pharmaceuticals. Let's examine each of these
reasons in more detail.
Supplements Can Prevent Nutritional
Deficiency Diseases
Vitamins are called vitamins because they
are essential for life and must be obtained
for extended periods of time, such as during
the winter or long sea voyages. It was not
uncommon, for example, for one-half of the
crew to die from scurvy on a long sea voy-
age. At one point, the British lost more sailors
to scurvy than to warfare.
What seems obvious to us now—that the
disease is caused by a nutrient deficiency—
was not at all obvious to the people of that
time. According to some accounts, it was
explorers like Jacques Cartier who associated
eating certain foods with curing these dis-
eases. James Lind, a British physician, is usu-
ally credited with the first scientific proposal
that scurvy was, in fact, caused by a nutrient
deficiency. He reported in the mid-1700s
that lemon juice would reverse the progres-
sion of the disease. It took some time, but
eventually the British Navy provided lime
juice to its sailors as a means of warding off
this disease. It is for this reason that British
sailors became known as "Limeys."
Eventually, the components of food respon-
sible for preventing each of the deficiency
diseases were identified and isolated. In the
case of vitamin C, it was first identified by
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. In most cases, these
essential nutrients can now be synthesized in
the laboratory. And they can be provided in
supplement form.
In the United States, full-blown nutritional
deficiency diseases are now rare. Foods are
often fortified with those vitamins and miner-
als most often lacking in our diets. Fresh
foods of all types are available in the neigh-
borhood supermarket throughout the year.
And contrary to the way it was a few hun-
dred years ago, we all know about the
importance of vitamins and minerals. Taking
a daily multivitamin is now an accepted prac-
tice, even if only as insurance to make sure
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from sources outside the body. In other
words, these nutrients—vitamins, minerals,
water, amino acids (protein), etc.—cannot be
synthesized within the body. They must be
obtained from the food we eat. Without an
ongoing supply of these essential nutrients,
we will die.
When the body is deprived of one or more
of these nutrients, the effect manifests itself
in various and unique ways. Examples of
these nutritional deficiency diseases are
scurvy, pellagra, beriberi, and rickets.
The story of the discovery of the role of
vitamin C in preventing scurvy is perhaps the
best known. The symptoms of this disease
include bleeding gums, easy and extensive
bruising, wounds that do not heal, lethargy
and depression, and joint pain. Before the
nineteenth century, this was a disease of sig-
nificant importance, occurring whenever
fresh fruits and vegetables were unavailable
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