Word: nutrients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...variety of food, especially orange fruit and green vegetables that are nutrient dense," Sonnenberg says. "Nowadays, there is more emphasis on eating fruit and vegetables during meals...
Whatever the prevalence of nutrient deficiency Johanna T. Dwyer, director of the Frances Stern Nutrition Center at New England Medical Center Hospital, stands firmly against consuming supplements...
...brain, consumer of about 20% of the body's energy, cannot burn fatty acids. It needs glucose, a form of sugar. And the major source of glucose in a starving body is protein. The first proteins to go are digestive enzymes in the stomach, pancreas and small intestine and nutrient-processing enzymes in the liver, no longer of much use anyway. Then the muscles begin to wither away, giving limbs a sticklike appearance...
...that three to six months of daily beta carotene pills dramatically reduced precancerous mouth lesions in 70% of patients. Pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann- La Roche is so enamored with beta carotene that it plans to open a Freeport, Texas, plant next year that will churn out 350 tons of the nutrient annually, or enough to supply a daily 6 mg capsule to virtually every American adult...
...February the FDA rejected as premature applications by vitamin makers to promote folic acid as a means of preventing neural-tube birth defects, antioxidants as a hedge against cancer, and zinc as a booster of aging immune systems. Both federal and state regulatory agencies have been cracking down on nutrient health claims. The FDA says it will hold label claims to standards similar to those applied to drugs. Advises Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health: "At this time I say don't take megadoses, but I'm not ruling out that in two or three years...