VITAMIN CHOPIN
Sir,--Why such large doses of this vitamin? Surely not on account of the orange shortage. I know it must be taken daily but didn’t think it was necessary to quaff such quantities. In my case, such a large daily intake produces qa sort of scurvy-the very disease it is supposed to prevent. The only antidotes are the meagre daily rations of vitamins Bach and Beethoven with an occasional thimbleful of vitamin Mozart (apparently not yet known to many). In the case of hardened addicts, such overdoses of this soul-searing vitamin Chopin result in a state of morbid sentimentality, leaving them completely unaware of the fact that a healthy life is impossible unless the diet contains other vitamins as well. Although probably distasteful to them on account of containing a certain amount of roughage, the Bach-Beethoven vitamins would prove singularly beneficial, as this group promotes not only physical, but also mental growth. If it has such a grip on them that ever increasing quantities must be consumed, the desired state of emotional stress could be produced in a more efficient and less gluttonous manner by trying the new synthetic vitamin Sin- atra (a cheap American product), which 1s so potent that even small doses are said to make college girls swoon. If this doesn’t work. trv an ordinary lemon.
BALANCED DIET
(Day’s Bay).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 5
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224VITAMIN CHOPIN New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 5
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