Word: calcium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they pour into the North Sea, 820 miles away. At Basel, the Rhine picks up city sewage; the chemical industries near Mannheim dump acids, oils, phenols, ammonia, dyes, chlorine, sulphate, iron, copper, bleach, cadmium and formaldehyde into its waters; the coal mines near the confluence of the Ruhr disgorge calcium deposits and sludge; the steel mills of Cologne contribute iron dross, furnace slag, oils and fats. As a result, the Rhine has come to be known as "Europe's longest sewer...
...remove the lead as it took for the child to take it in, says Chisolm. For the milder cases, this appears to be sufficient. For more severe poisoning, especially if there are signs of brain damage, some doctors use drugs called chelating agents. These drugs work by substituting calcium for the lead, which is then excreted. Dr. Chisolm questions whether this is necessary in the milder cases...
...times. It is perhaps significant that the young who have made it so constitute the most intensively educated generation in U.S. history; the endocrine charge that goes with intemperate talk and action may be nature's way of counterbalancing an overemphasis on cool rationality, much as a calcium-deficient child is moved to nibble plaster off the wall. Miss Terry's style of gut theater fits in with this new act-it-out, confrontation mode. But the excitement of real life does not transfer to the stage like a decalcomania. The endocrine charge is missing from Ranchman, leaving...
Another effect of the fresh water, says Benson, is to stimulate the production of a hormone that causes calcium to dissolve out of the bones. The bloodstream is thus supplied with calcium that is no longer available from the calcium carbonate in ocean water-but the cost is high. The salmon's bones soften and virtually dissolve...
Clogging the Arteries. Both the pituitary gland changes and the loss of bone calcium in salmon are also familiar symptoms of aging in humans. "But in the fish," says Biochemist Trams, "the gland goes to hell in two weeks, a process that takes some 20 to 40 years in man." Thus the salmon makes an "ideal laboratory tool" for the investigation of geriatric ailments...