CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unus The Untouchable, Retina, Multivitamin

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: Ariel Fenster

Document Summary

Vitamins are nutrients needed in small amts to prevent deficiency diseases. A balanced diet contains all the vitamins in the required amts. There are gaps in numbers and letters because they were not vitamins finally. Used as marketing tools ex: in cereals, vitamin water, natural and caffeine free cola (but instead get overdose of vitamins), Drug companies of vitamins also make vitamins in milk (is fortified with vitamins), and juices. Price fixing is a serious issue everywhere (ex usa, china) History of vitamins goes back to vitamin c . Discovery voyages 15th-17th century, crew developed scurvy (legs swollen and puffed up, blotches on skin, gums decay and peel off until teeth fall out). Canada, they told him that they had a cure: made a brew with pine needles; today we know rich source of vitamin c. (cabbage also has lots vitamin c= ascorbic acid). James lind 1753 first one to carry clinical trial.