Word: calcium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noteworthy that neutrons have been recognized as coming from elements which are the lightest of their groups in the Periodic System. Beryllium is the lightest of the earth alkali group (beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, radium). Boron is lightest of the earth metals (boron, aluminum, scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, actinium). Fluorine is lightest of the halogens (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and, newly recognized, alabamine...
...Alexander Hellwig, 42, of St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kan. doubted that theory. He had noted as had others that a diet low in iodine, high in calcium produced the most pronounced goiters. He believed there must be a positive cause for goitrous enlargement of the thyroid, probably calcium...
Wichita is an excellent place for goiter experiment. The region was archaically the bottom of a sea. Its soil contains much iodine. Goiter is consequently rare. In that propitious environment he fed animals with food low in both iodine and calcium. The animals did not develop goiter. Instead, their thyroids atrophied. Then to iodine-deprived animals he gave large quantities of calcium-containing foods. At once they developed goiter...
Proved apparently was his hypothesis that for want of iodine, thyroids degenerate; surfeited with calcium they enlarge. But there may be more factors than calcium which cause the positive enlargement. For such biochemists were searching last week...
...cure cancer then, Dr. McDonald believes, conditions must be produced which will 1) normalize the break-up of body sugar; 2) normalize the blood's alkaline state; 3) reduce high blood sugar; 4) increase the cell's calcium; 5) reduce the cell's potassium...