The Importance of Vitamins to Human Health : Proceedings of the IV Kellogg Nutrition Symposium Held at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London, on 14–15 December, 1978

The Kellogg Company ranks among the world's leading food manufacturers, and it follows, therefore, that our corporate policies are important to human health. Indeed food manufacturers, as a combined industrial force, must bear a major responsibility for the health of mankind because commercially processed foods are increasingly an indispensable part of the mosaic of human nutrition. This is particularly true in advanced industrialised societies. Here, in Great Britain, 40% ofthe people live in major conurbations and 41 % of the food they eat is either pre-cooked or preserved, compounded or frozen, dehydrated or concentrated, or modified in some other way to satisfy a consumer need or preference. These preferences are communicated to the manufacturer through the competitive forces of the market, and are then translated into products in their most attractive and saleable form. However, it is questionable how far consumer choice, depending largely on sight and taste, can be relied upon to ensure a correctly balanced and nutritionally adequate diet. The probable answer is that if we all relied, solely, on our senses and our appetites, many of us would be suffering from some form of nutritional imbalance. A serious nutritional responsibility therefore rests with the modern food manufacturer. We, at Kellogg's, are conscious of the need, not only to make the foods we produce attractive to the purse and palate, but to ensure that they make a sound contribution in nutritional terms. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Man’s needs for vitamins — a need for review ?....Pages 1-7 Developments in the determination of water-soluble vitamins in food....Pages 9-16 Vitamin B 1 supply in industrialized countries....Pages 17-25 Effects of riboflavin deficiency on erythrocytes....Pages 27-40 Nutritional and biochemical aspects of vitamin B 12 ....Pages 41-46 Folic acid....Pages 47-51 Clinical biochemistry of vitamin B 6 ....Pages 53-60 Inappropriate vitamin C reserves: their frequency and significance in an urban population....Pages 61-72 Developments in analytical methods for the determination of fat-soluble vitamins in foods....Pages 73-79 Vitamin A deficiency and excess....Pages 81-90 The importance of sunlight as a source of vitamin D for man....Pages 91-100 Vitamin E in human nutrition....Pages 101-110 The effects of processing on the stability of vitamins in foods....Pages 111-125 The clinical diagnosis of vitamin deficiencies in everyday medical practice....Pages 127-137 Vitamin deficiencies in disease states....Pages 139-149 Progress in the prevention and treatment of nutritional rickets....Pages 151-162 Food enrichment....Pages 163-171 Back Matter....Pages 173-178