Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aware that she is "eating for two," a pregnant woman is likely to make sure she gets sufficient bread, cereals and milk-all of which, because of the long campaign to wipe out rickets, are usually fortified with vitamin D. Her obstetrician may well prescribe a daily capsule of supplemental calcium and vitamin D. And while the mother-to-be is taking it easy, she may do a little sunbathing, which stimulates her system to make still more vitamin D. It all adds up not only to a hefty dose of the vital vitamin but to some risk that...
...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-growing child. Dr. Cooke suggested that women check with their doctors on their...
...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...
Since the baby cannot metabolize galactose to glucose, the sugar that the body burns for energy, he must be put on a special milk-free diet. Otherwise he is almost certain to develop cataracts and cirrhosis of the liver and, if he does not die, to be mentally retarded...
...Britain, Heinz 63% of that country's $70 million-a-year baked-bean market and 61% of its canned-soup bowl. Led by General Mills, National Biscuit and Pillsbury, U.S. companies now control half of the French biscuit business. A Carnation subsidiary produces 85% of all the evaporated milk sold in France, and Corn Products' Knorr soups have half the German market. In Germany, a Kraft Foods subsidiary sells a line of 100 products, including cheeses and complete packaged spaghetti or rice dinners...