Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...related to the fact that a baby's brain grows fastest at birth and shortly afterward, gaining weight at the rate of about an ounce every two weeks. Reporting similar findings in laboratory animals, the University of London's Dr. John Dobbing said that underfeeding of newborn rats and pigs interferes with the growth of fatty, myelin sheaths around nerve fibers. And this brain damage cannot be fully repaired by normal feeding in later life...
...lactose as fuel, the body must first break it down into two simpler sugars: glucose and galactose. The enzyme that does the cracking is lactase. Nature intended babies to live on milk, and lactase deficiency is fortunately a rarity in the newborn, but the incidence increases with advancing age. According to Georgetown University's Dr. Stuart H. Danovitch, writing in GP, as much as 10% of the adult population may suffer from lack of lactase. Colorado...
...each new baby in the hope of avoiding mix-ups in identity. But Lieut. Colonel Kenneth S. Shepard saw no reason not to question the practice just because it is S.O.P. At Travis Air Force Base in California he had prints carefully made of the feet of 51 newborn babies, then got the babies in for repeat prints five to six weeks later. He sent the two sets of prints, coded only by number, to experts in criminal fingerprinting...
...same thing may happen in humans, says Pediatrician Eden. There have been 26 confirmed Vibrio fetus infections in men. There have been only eight reported cases involving women, all associated with pregnancy. "This must be more than coincidence," says Dr. Eden. The eight pregnancies ended in two abortions, four newborn deaths, only two babies surviving. Three of the infants who died had a raging vibrio inflammation of the brain and its covering. The women, suggests Dr. Eden, were infected during coitus, and though they may have shown no sign of illness themselves, they transmitted the vibrio to the developing fetus...
After Nobis, the deluge. Illinois Fullback Jim Grabowski, the No. 1 choice of the A.F.L.'s newborn Miami Dolphins, signed (for $250,000) with the N.F.L.'s Green Bay Packers-not even bothering to entertain a bid from New York Jets Owner David ("Sonny") Werblin, who persuaded the Dolphins to deed him the rights to Grabowski at the last minute. Then the A.F.L.'s San Diego Chargers lost their No. 1 draftee, mammoth (6 ft. 5 in., 255 Ibs.) Los Angeles State Tackle Don Davis, to the N.F.L.'s New York Giants. The Western Champion Chargers...