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juice? Not many, I am sure. Otherwise there isn't much to choose between these juices from a vitamin standpoint.

Interdependence of the Vitamins an Each Other There is overwhelming evidence that there is an interdependence of the vitamins upon each other and that the giving of massive doses of a single isolated vitamin in pure or concentrated form may cause an endocrine imbalance. Dr. Sherman doubts how well the vitamin may be utilized when taken as such a concentrate, or under conditions differing from ordinary digestion. Dr. D. T. Quigley, of the University of Nebraska, points out that: "A certain amount of vitamin B has come to be associated in the organism with a certain amount of vitamin A. A certain amount of vitamin C undoubtedly functions best in the presence of other vitamins. Like the products of the glands of internal secretion, there is an inter-relationship of action among vitamins." And so we find another important reason for depending on carrot juice with its abundant vitamins in natural proportions to each other.

CARROTS A REMARKABLE FOOD

Carrots are truly a remarkable food. They contain the vitamins, the important minerals, carbohydrates in easily available form, and some protein. They contain no deleterious substances and are entirely wholesome. They supply in abundance the two specific food constituents in which - according to Sherman, McCollum, Rose, Sure, et al - the American dietary is most deficient in calcium and vitamin A. Carrot juice should be used everywhere to bolster or fortify the regular diet.

Hauser and Berg, in their Dictionary of Foods," say: "Carrot juice constitutes a powerful cleansing and acid-neutralizing food. Carrots contain an insulin like ingredient and a hormone-like ferment called toko-kinin. This is probably why diabetics digest the sugar in carrots more easily than any other kind of sugar."

The medicinal properties of carrots have long been known to horse breeders and livestock growers. Racing horses are given carrots to keep them in fine fettle, young cattle are fed carrots to prepare them for market, wise poultry farmers see that carrot mash is placed regularly in the chicken runs. Ill-conditioned animals of all kinds are fed carrots to restore them to proper condition. Perhaps the fact that they have been used so extensively as a food for livestock has prejudiced the public somewhat against carrots for human consumption but a proper knowledge of their true nutritional value should dissipate any such feeling.

One authority says that carrots are concentrated sun's rays and that they contain the substance that furnishes the impulse for life's processes. Dr. Crile says that such captured sunshine, shining again within living cells, accounts for the life energy of men and animals. Plants store up this sunshine and it is released in the body when we eat them as food.
Let us summarize the properties of carrot juice and see why it deserves such high rank among health foods as we have chosen to give it. We will find that it has important qualities, some of which it shares with other vegetables and foods; some of which are distinctly its own: It is very high in alkaline minerals. It is a remarkable source of vitamins. It is easily digested and can be consumed in quantities large enough for rapid body revitalization. It is extremely palatable when properly prepared and served. It facilitates the digestion of certain important auxiliary foods.

In addition to these well-established qualities of carrot juice, it has also been established through biochemical research that:

The alkalies in carrots, particularly the calcium, are more easily appropriated than those in other vegetables. - Blatherwick and Long.

Carrots contain no deleterious substances such as are frequently found in other foods. - Marshall.

Carrots possess certain antiseptic properties which tend to limit putrefactive changes within the body. - Metchnikoff, Kellogg, Berg and others.

Carrots grown in goiter-free sections are rich in iodine. - Sherman.

Carrots supply considerable mucin, a substance that serves as a salve and lubricant for the mucous nembranes. - Hauser.

CARROT JUICE FOR CHILDREN

The value of carrot juice for children can hardly be over-estimated. It supplies the vitamin A so necessary for growth and vitality and is, withal, almost as excellent a source of calcium as milk. Benjamin Gaye-lord Hauser recommends the use of carrot juice with milk - half and half - for all children, beginning with babies six months or more of age. You may expect a child to exhibit considerably higher health than usual if the milk is reinforced with a quantity of carrot juice. The youngsters love this combination, many small children turning up their noses at straight milk after having a sample of the mixture.

It requires no great knowledge of food chemistry to understand the excellence of milk and carrot juice together as a food for small children, for it is appetizing, eas

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