Some Effects of Water-Soluble Vitamine Upon Nutrition

Activity after recovery from rickets.

“…When the experimental animals were realimented they approached the normal in performance, but persisted in making more errors than the controls, indicating that the error habit had become somewhat fixed. One of the most interesting behavior disorders, striking at the very fundamentals of nutrition, is the demonstration by Karr (5), and later by Cowgill (6), of profound anorexia associated with vitamin B deficiency.…”

A classified bibliography on psychodietetics.

“…Appetite.-As early as 1911, Osborne and Mendel (461) expressed the belief that it was not monotony but some deficiency in the diet which brought on anorexia, and this has been confirmed experimentally in recent years. It now seems to be clearly established that a deficiency in vitamin B complex will cause a loss of appetite (409,414,415,416,417,418,419,420,423,424,425,431,433,436,438,439,443,448,463,468,470,471,472,473,475). Sherman and Sandels (468) report that lack of vitamin B (Bx) is more responsible for anorexia than is lack of vitamin G (B2).…”