Doctor in the kitchen
WHAT VITAMINS
DO FOR US
It is necessary to know
how the cells in our bodies
work if you are to un
derstand why you need
vitamins.
To start with, do you know
how many cells there are in
your body’’ Billions of cells is
the answer, and all of them
work together to perform
chemical functions that are
essential to life.
But assisting each cell to
do its specific tasks are
numerous enzymes. It’s
estimated that in helping the
cell to do its jobs, individual
enzymes perform their tasks
thousands of times a minute.
Since it’s also estimated
that each cell contains
hundreds of different en-
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zymes, a cell is obviously one
busy place.
But scientists tell us that
some enzymes can’t work
alone. They need co
workers, known as coen
7>mes. And this, friends, is
where vitamins come in for
many coenzymes are, in
fact, vitamins or vitamins
are needed to produce them.
The primary function of
vitamins is to assist enzymes
in carrying out many of the
chemical happenuigs that
are essential to life
The first vitamin to be
discovered (in 1913) was, of
course, named vitamin A.
Scientists knew before 1913
that something besides
protein, fats, carbohydrates
and minerals was at work in
foods something that
encouraged growth Bui they
didn't know what it woa until
In research with animats
vitamin A was discovered
And this wnn followed over
the years by the discovery of
the whole host of vilamias
we know now
Vltnmlas arc separated
into two classes fat
soluble vilamias and those
known ns water-soluble.
Vilamias A. D. E and K arc
fat-soluble They always
appear in the fat portion of
foods In our bodies, they all
arc stored to some degree
Thus we can build up
reserves
But a word of warning, this
also means we could build up
toxic levels of fat-soluble
vitamins in our bodies.
As for all the other
vitamins they are water
soluble and our bodies do not
store them. They are con
stantly being excreted and
thus must be replenished
from our daily food. Next
week, and the week after,
we’ll get into what the dif
ferent vitamins do.
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Dairy
club
meets
At a meeting held recently
at the home of Ixiri Stein.
Mohrsville, the Northern
Berks Co 4-H Dairy club
elected officers for 1976
Elected president was Nedra
Yoder of Shocmakcrsvillc,
vice-president was Patricia
Drcisbach of Hamburg,
secretary, Connie Ohlinger,
Mohrsville; treasurer, Cathy
Ohlinger, Mohrsville;
Historian, Harold Dietrich,
Hamburg; news reporter,
Carol Dreisbach, Hamburg;
song leaders, Larry and
loanee Christman, Hamburg.
Club members par
ticipated in the nationwide
Judging Contest sponsored
by Hoard’s Dairyman and
made plans for a roller
skating party to be held in
April. The club also voted to
provide calves for the Dairy
Week exhibition to be held at
the Berkshire Mall June 14-
19
The next meeting will be
held on March 25 at the
MohrsviUe home of Connie
and Cathy Ohlinger.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. March 13.1976
Broilers
Placements of broiler
rbicks in (he Commonwealth
during the week ending
February it 1976 were
1 448.000 The placements
were 20 percent above the
<orresponding week a year
earlier,and 10percent above
Ihe previous week Average
placements during Ihe past
10 weeks were II percent
above a year earlier Set
(mgs for broiler rhicks were
2 277.000,3 percent abov c the
previous week and 17 per
cent above the comparable
period a year earlier The
current 3 week total of eggs
set is 13 percent above the
same period a year ago
Inshipmenls of broiler-type
chicks during the na«» io
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weeks averaged 100 com
parrel with zero A year ago
Oulslnpmentn averaged
20fl 000 during the pant 10
weeks. 12 percent below a
vear earlier
21.STATKS Placements in
the 21 Slates were fi0.423 000
2 percent below the previous
week but .1 percent above the
name week a year earlier
Average placements uunng
the past to weeks were 9
percent above a year ago
Settings were 78,614,000 1
percent above the previous
week and 10 percent above a
year earlier The current 3-
week total of eggs set is 10
percent above the com
parable period a year ago
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Phone 215-593-5280
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