Word: multivitamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alka-Seltzer soon moved ahead to become a dyspeptic nation's favorite (it now outsells Bromo-Seltzer 4 to 1). After packaging powdered coffee and lemon mix for K-rations during World War II, Miles Laboratories became in the postwar years the world's largest seller of multivitamin tablets. Nonetheless, though prospering, the company itself showed a decided lack of pep by the mid-1950s...
...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 total vitamin D intake. The striking...