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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Re: B Vitamin Info wanted
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 13:03:12 EDT
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> >This is a request to help save me a lot of digging.  Generally I refer to
> >Vitamins by their chemical name, as the pattern in most texts, so I was
> >wondering if someone could help me complete the following chart.
> >
> >B1 = Thiamine
> >B2 = Riboflavin
> >B6 = Pyridoxine and related compounds
> >B12 = Cyanocobalamin
> >
> >That leaves 3,4,5,7,8,9,10, and 11 free.
> >
> >It also leaves Niacin, Pantothenate, and (I believe) Folate as B Vitamins
> >without assignment.
> 
> From the book "The Vitamin & Health Encyclopedia" by Jack Richardson:
> 
> B3 = Niacin
> ...
> B17 = Laetrile

	I hate to nitpick, but where I come from nicotinamide is Vitamin B3,
and niacin is simply a colloquial name for nicotinic acid.
	Also, Laetrile has been unfortunately referred to as ``Vitamin B-17''
in some literature - which is most misleading.  Note, however, that it is
literally ``B-17'' and not ``B'' subscript ``17'' which is the form that all
of the genuine B vitamins are written in.
	The current 9th edition of "The Merck Index" agrees with me.  I could
flame about how these 'consumer' oriented health books distort the chemical
and biological facts - but I won't today...

	Larry Lippman
	Recognition Research Corp.
	Clarence, New York
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