Synthetic Vitamins – Agnes Fay Morgan, Ph.D. – Enrichment

This article is from the transcription of the audio clip used in the presentation by Dr. George Goodheart, Nutritional Wisdom of the Masters.

So, the use of single factors outside of the food pattern I don’t believe is nutritional. It’s pharmacological. It’s a drug effect. We’ve taken the stand from the beginning. All the tests that have been made on synthetic vitamins have failed to show any nutritional value. So if we’re not interested in drugs, we shouldn’t be interested in them.

Dr. Morgan, up at the university of California at Berkeley, who is for twenty-five years head of their Department of Nutrition: when the hullabaloo developed on the enrichment of bread, back twelve or fourteen years ago, thought she would test the vitamins that were proposed as enriching agents on some dogs. She set up a colony of dogs and fed half of them. She fed them all on very low vitamin foods like white flour and white sugar. She gave half of them the enriching vitamins in the proper amount that is proposed for flour and sat back to see what would happen. Well the dogs that were getting the enriching vitamins became affected adversely before the other dogs. In her own words she said they became “sedate and senile.” They wouldn’t move around with any speed, I guess it’s because they had neuritic pains or something. But they would move around with great deliberation and caution. Maybe they were smart because they soon started dropping dead from heart failure. When one of us are in such a critical state we’re liable to drop dead, we should e stepping around with caution. At any rate, the dogs given the enriched food died quicker than those that got no enrichment at all. Now that is exactly the opposite effect of what it was suppose to have. To my knowledge, no other experiments have ever been made to find out if that could be confirmed or disproved. Instead of that we have been fed and sold millions and millions of pounds, millions of tons maybe, of enriched flour. Statistically I don’t know how much of an increase we’ve had in the incidence of sudden death from heart disease but I know it’s plenty. I know one city where it doubled in five years after fluorine was put in the water and the fluoridators are pointing that out, but I think the fluorine merely activated what is being done by enrichment of food. We haven’t yet any evidence to show that there’s any merit, nutritionally, in use of synthetic vitamins.

This article is from the transcription of the audio clip used in the presentation by Dr. George Goodheart, Nutritional Wisdom of the Masters. This is a verbatim transcript from the audio archives entitled: Lectures of Dr. Royal Lee, Volume II.  Published on Audio Disc by Selene River Press, Inc. Published in Wellness Star News with permission from Michael Dobbins, D.C.