Word: excessive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...report filed in July by the committee did not ignore the problem of Senate ethics. It recommended that Senate employees and Senators be required to file a statement of income in excess of their government salary. These proposals were strongly backed by the committee counsel McLendon who criticized the "cloak of immunity around the personal behavior of members." He implied that Senators self-righteously insist that their personal behavior be regulated not by law, but by conscience. McLendon's judgement proved correct. The relatively moderate report was defeated...
...Cooke was careful to point out that for the vast majority of women and their babies, the prevailing intake of vitamin D does no harm. But in unpredictable cases, any excess over normal requirements causes unnatural calcium deposition in the fetus: its bones, especially the base of the skull, grow unusually dense, and chalky deposits narrow the aorta. Sometimes the aorta is narrowed around the origin of the renal arteries so that the kidneys are starved of blood and the affected baby suffers from extremely high blood pressure...
Incurable & Preventable. The trouble with vitamin D, said Dr. Cooke, is that the body has no effective mechanism for getting rid of an excess. It accumulates until it triggers the deposition of calcium. And it is easy for the susceptible unborn child to get too much of it: one pregnant woman in Baltimore, who was eating well, drinking a great deal of milk, and taking her prescribed multivitamin capsules, was getting 2,000 to 3,000 units of vitamin D daily along with her sunshine supplement, as against a recommended daily intake of only 400 units, even for a fast...
...winner of the prize and director of the Max Planck Institute for Cell Chemistry in Munich, have puzzled out the 36-step process by which acetic acid is transformed into Cholesterol. Cholesterol is known to be the raw material of the sex hormones; some researchers believe that excess cholesterol causes heart disease. While this theory has not been confirmed, the Nobel Committee observed in its citation that "The therapy against circulatory diseases and related disturbances ... will in the future rest upon the form foundation laid by Bloch and Lynen...
...from jaundice, vomiting and diarrhea, his mother can hardly be expected to know that he may lack the enzyme galactose1 -phosphate uridyl transferase. Neither can doctors, unless they send samples of the baby's blood and urine for timeconsuming, costly lab tests. Then, if the tests show an excess of galactose (milk sugar) in the blood or urine, doctors know what the trouble is and how to remedy...