Word: lecithin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University of Chicago colleague Richard J. Miller is tracing the link between dopamine and endorphins. At M.I.T., Richard Wurtman, who is studying various neurotransmitters, notably acetylcholine, has found that their production can be increased by diet. Indeed, by upping a patient's intake of foods rich in lecithin-a precursor of acetylcholine -especially egg yolks, meat and fish, such disorders as senility, manic-depression and the loss of motor control associated with the degenerative disease Huntington's chorea, or tardive dyskinesia, can be substantially alleviated...
...also extranuclear families-communes, and open households- whose relationships and attitudes often seem like exotic and short-lived particles created in cyclotrons. A band in Texas "went up in a blaze of sexual hyperactivity and recrimination after about a year." A group organized around devotion to carrot-bulgur-lecithin surprise cake unglued when Frito crumbs were discovered in their beds. At an ashram, Howard is overdosed on the word "share" and honored by a guru who breathes up her nose. At a farm community she is told of a vegetarianism so strict that members wear no leather or down-filled...
...keeps her in shape. Sprouted grains for one thing. "They have plenty of chlorophyll that cleanses the blood and makes the body smell pure. There is no odor to my sweat." After breakfasting on dried and crumbled whole-grain bread kneaded with carrot juice and topped with rice polish, lecithin, yogurt and a tiny ripe banana, Gloria sometimes skips around the house. "I'm a regular hausfrau, but I still need more exercise." Gloria plans to buy a treadmill. To display what her way of life has done for her in 50 years, Gloria obligingly posed for a photographer...
...search of nourishment. Next door is a restaurant; it is not until he examines the menu that he sees the words "health foods"-and by then it is a little late to run. On the shelves are strange labels: Granola, mung beans, Tiger's Milk, lecithin, all at nonsensical prices. Vitamin E, he learns, is expected to cure everything but the common cold; Vitamin C takes care of that. Adelle Davis has become the Brillat-Savarin of the counterculture. Her self-help books beckon from the paperback rack: Let's Get Well, Let's Have Healthy Children...
...Woody, who? Nobody, really. The Allen persona - the urban boy-chik as social misfit - is, of course, an act, a put-on, no more the real performer than Chaplin's tramp or Jack Benny's miser. Still it does contain grains of truth, along with lecithin, gum arabic and .2% sodium benzoate to retard spoilage. Like all great comedians, Allen consumes his roots, and very often the public schleprechaun blurs into the private comic who would rather talk about anything but himself. As he admits, even his most outrageous gags are a form of autobiography, a reflection...