Archive for October 5th, 2008
Milestones In Vitamin History
The importance of vitamins was recognized during ancient history. The Egyptians recognized that foods with Vitamin A could improve night blindness. Of course they didn’t know 3500 years ago that what they were missing in their body was Vitamin A! Each generation has recognized the importance of vitamins and then assumed they had learned all there was to know. That has been proven false over and over again. New discoveries were made and knowledge was changed as new discoveries caused old ways of thinking to be discarded. (more…)