Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldiers get little meat, but that is often nutritious heart, liver, kidneys, lungs. Since no restrictions are placed on food for the Army, Dr. Gerson thinks that meatless rations are not due to economic necessity, "but [to] the newer knowledge of the science of nutrition." German military doctors, for instance, claim that vegetarianism cures neuroses and depression, makes for greater efficiency. But U.S. scientists generally believe that vegetable proteins are poor substitutes for good red meat in building new body tissues. In the U.S. Army, soldiers get about 10 ounces of meat...
...need to. That fact was conclusively documented last week by two Swedish doctors who rounded up the data on a preventive. For over a year, doctors have occasionally used this new treatment to prevent thrombosis. It consists of large doses of heparin, a natural anticoagulant manufactured by the liver...
...members of the American Medical Association last week. He reminded them of the shock ing but well-known fact that thousands of U.S. children are still weak, potbellied and spindly, because many mothers do not know enough to give their babies a daily teaspoon of vitamin-D-rich cod-liver oil or halibut-liver oil as a sunshine substitute in the dark winter months. And because many children refuse to take the nasty stuff...
...Gerstenberger has cured 15 bowlegged, pigeon-breasted babies in Cleveland with one large injection each. He also protected 159 out of 160 healthy infants from rickets over this last winter. The injections are far cheaper than cod-liver oil, which is somewhat scarce at present.* For best results, he finds that the first injection should be given when a baby is a month old, and that no sunlamp or other vitamin treatment is necessary...
...Shipments from Canada, Britain and Japan have been greatly curtailed. The supply of halibut liver oil, which comes from the northern Pacific Coast, is more plentiful...