Word: nutrients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time to toss the beta carotene pills. In the second slam this year, scientists who studied 1,800 people over a decade found that daily supplements do nothing to lower the chances of dying from cancer or cardiovascular disease. Still, eating fruits and vegetables rich in the nutrient appears to reduce the risk of disease; researchers now suspect that this is owing to an overall healthy diet and not to beta carotene...
Flour and other grain products are now required to be fortified with folic acid, a nutrient that reduces the risk of neural-tube birth defects like spina bifida. About 2,500 infants are born each year with such defects, which occur in the fetus before most women know they are pregnant...
When the program began in September 1993, Dining Services invested $15,000 in a computer program containing the complete database of the United States Dietary Association's food composition tables, Berry says. The program allows Dining Services to analyze its recipes for 38 nutrient values...
...harm" when used as intended. If olestra really makes people sick, as Jacobson and others assert, the agency might well reject it. But after much fretting over the precise definition of harm (and diarrhea as well), a majority of advisory-committee members decided that while the gastrointestinal and nutrient-blocking effects may be inconvenient and even unpleasant, they're almost certainly not harmful...
...beheld their quarry: a small stingless bee that shared the earth with giant mastodons. With sterile instruments and gloved hands, microbiologist Raul Cano and his student Monica Borucki proceeded with an improbable experiment. First they delicately extracted the bee's diminutive digestive tract. Then they placed the tissues in nutrient-rich broth. Within a week the mixture turned cloudy, a sign that bacterial spores, dormant inside the bee for 25 million to 40 million years, had suddenly, miraculously surged back to life...