Word: estrogen
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...poultrymen, with Food and Drug Administration approval, fortify chicken feed with antimony or arsenic compounds or estrogen hormones to stimulate growth and make their birds fatten faster...
...dumping chickens in Europe at prices below cost of production. In Bavaria and Westphalia, protectionist German farmers' associations stormed that U.S. chickens are artificially fattened with arsenic and should be banned. The French government did ban U.S. chickens, using the excuse that they are fattened with estrogen. With typical Gallic concern, Frenchmen hinted that such hormones could have catastrophic effects on male virility...
Principal beneficiaries of the treatment, which has been tested on 2,000 patients for as long as two years, will be men in the middle and upper age ranges. Women enjoy natural protection through their sex hormones or estrogens against the worst ravages of atherosclerosis, in which cholesterol and related fatty substances clog the arterial tubes. Triparanol synthesized by Merrell, is such close kin to female sex hormones that it has been whimsically dubbed a "nonestrogenic estrogen...
...Oliver Kuzma, working with Dr. Marmorston and her group, reported parallel evidence from a group of 109 men who got a slightly larger but virtually nonfeminizing dose of estrogen. In addition to an encouraging trend in the male death rate, Dr. Kuzma reported that in most cases the levels of cholesterol and other fat fractions circulating in the blood of heart-attack victims returned closer to normal, with no untoward feminizing effects. And Dr. Kuzma found that increasing the dosage, to the point where feminization was unmistakable, conferred no added advantage...
Though chemists are eagerly seeking a synthetic that will have the advantages but not the feminizing disadvantages of the natural estrogen, Drs. Marmorston and Kuzma see no need to wait for this millennium. They feel much good can be done with the currently available estrogens (marketed under different names by a dozen U.S. drug companies). Even on prescription, the low-dosage tablets should not cost more than a nickel...