The Effect of Varied Vitamin B Ingestion Upon the Appetite of Children

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Factors affecting appetite have been studied through food consumption records which have been kept during 32 weeks for thirty-two children, age 4 to 10, at the Country Home for Convalescent Crippled Children, and during a similar period for twenty-two girls, age 9 to 11, at the Mooseheart Home for Child Training. Following control periods, the vitamin B intake of both groups was increased by means of: first, stabilized wheat germ, and second, crystalline vitamin B. The vitamin B contents of the regular diets of the children averaged from 260 to 420 international standard units per day, while the supplements of wheat germ and crystalline vitamin B furnished from 120 to 200 additional units. A supplementary ingestion of approximately 150 units of vitamin B (representing an increase of about 50% in the daily vitamin B intake) produced increases of from 17 to 25% in the grams of food consumed per child per day. The caloric ingestion during these periods of increased food consumption correlated to a slight degree with increased weight gains.

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