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...citrus fruits, broccoli lower risks for certain cancers Thiamin important in energy metabolism cereals Riboflavin important in energy production liver, milk Niacin needed by hundreds of enzymes for grain products, meat, poultry energy metabolism Vitamin B6 needed by enzymes for amino acid poultry, fish, grain products metabolism Vitamin B12 important for recycling coenzymes animal products for metabolism Folic Acid essential for DNA formation and nor- liver, leafy vegetables mal cell division Minerals Calcium promotes skeletal growth, involved milk in muscle contraction Phosphorus essential component of bone miner- all protein-rich foods, (milk, als and of DNA meat, fish) Magnesium necessary...
What is jammed up nostrils, supposedly provides a jolt, and isn't cocaine? Presenting Ener-B, an intranasal gel loaded with vitamin B12 and sold in health stores for $12 a twelve-dose box. Like '60s celebrities who swore by B12 shots, enthusiasts claim the new nose job supplies a burst of energy. Absurd, say experts, and the FDA is investigating. Most people have a five- year B12 supply stored in their livers; excess simply gets excreted. "If you buy this gel," sniffs Dr. Victor Herbert of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, "you're going to have the most...
...Morning is a distant third. But the arrival of Kuralt, that laureate of the common man, has acted like a shot of vitamin B12. Within two weeks after he became anchorman on Oct. 27, Morning's ratings jumped from 2.5 to 3.5, an increase of 40%. Robert Northshield, the show's senior executive producer, is convinced that the amiable Kuralt, 46, who won millions of fans over the past 13 years for his evening news "On the Road" travels, will push them still higher. He says, "If anyone can raise the ratings, Charlie...
...M.I.T. at 16, got his B.S. at 19 and Ph.D. at 20. In 1937 he joined the Harvard faculty and in 1944 synthesized the antimalarial drug quinine, a project he had worked on since his teens. He then synthesized cholesterol, cortisone, several antibiotics and chlorophyll and, in 1972, vitamin B12, at that time the most intricate molecule ever constructed in a laboratory...
...study of water pollution in St. Louis two years ago, he invented a device that could measure pollutants and nutrients in water. He set the instrument in his goldfish pond and found that after a rainfall, particularly after a thunderstorm, the amount of free nutrients (vitamin B12, for example) in the water suddenly increased. Because such substances are normally associated with living organisms, Parker could not imagine why they should be present in rainwater-"unless there is something going on up there...