Word: niacin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impressive, Dr. Krasno conceded that longer-range studies involving many more subjects are needed. The Heart Institute project has so far recruited 4,800 men for testing, and will eventually have 8,400 at 55 clinics across the U.S. The test program involves four drugs: dextrothyroxine (Choloxin), nicotinic acid (niacin) and estrogens (female sex hormones) in addition to clofibrate. Unlike the Krasno study...
...grow our food on depleted soils fertilized with chemicals, sprayed with poisons. We have pasteurized, homogenized, bleached, refined and "enriched": "Enriched" flour is flour from which 25 natural nutrients have been removed during refining; it is "enriched" by replacing one-third the original amount of iron, vitamin B,, and niacin. Today thousands of children have multiple cavities because we heat milk to the point that it no longer contains adequate vitamins A and C and calcium...
...vitamins are A, D, E, C (ascorbic acid), B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), Niacin, B6, folic acid, pantothenic acid, and B12. The minerals are calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, iodine and copper...
Died. Dr. Conrad Arnold Elvehjem, 61, president for six years of the University of Wisconsin and biochemist whose identification of nicotinic acid as a new vitamin (now called niacin) led directly to the cure of pellagra, and who won medicine's Lasker Award in 1952; of a heart attack; in Madison...
Widely touted preparations such as triparanol and nicotinic acid (one of the B vitamins, also called niacin) do lower blood cholesterol, but they have undesirable side effects. Triparanol interferes with the liver's formation of cholesterol, forces it instead to produce a suspicious substance called desmosterol that is chemically related to cholesterol-and may even have the same damaging effect on arteries. Nicotinic acid, to be effective, must be administered in massive doses. The result: flushing, itching, nausea, headaches, changes in the blood...