![]() ![]() The other was the practice of enriching the country’s flour supply with vitamins and minerals-particularly, Price said, with thiamin, or vitamin B1: “There was a huge trend with thiamin, the idea that all of America was deficient in thiamin, and, ‘Oh my god, if we don’t put thiamin in flour, then we’re not going to be able to fight the Nazis.’” "There were all these rumors that the Nazis were basically race-building through vitamins." One was the creation of the Recommended Daily Allowances, the first set of guidelines for how much of each nutrient a person ought to consume. ![]() Three ideas emerged from the National Nutrition Conference for Defense that still exist today. “There were all these rumors that the Nazis were restricting vitamins in their conquered people’s foods and giving their young men vitamin supplements and basically race-building through vitamins.” “There was this idea of optimization: ‘What do we need to do to optimize Americans’ health, to make sure we have enough pep and vigor to get us through this war?’” said Catherine Price, the author of Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection. ![]() to discuss a weapon that would help the U.S. In 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt summoned hundreds of scientists, doctors, and food manufacturers to Washington, D.C. ![]()
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