Word: vitamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allen's own dedication to the game is so complete that he often forgets to eat and has to get vitamin injections from the Rams' doctor. During the season, he practically survives on ice cream, which he eats, says his wife, "because he doesn't have to chew it. Chewing would take his mind off football...
Died. Agnes Morgan, 84, professor of nutrition at the University of California (Berkeley) from 1915 to 1954 and the food expert who made vitamin a household word in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Berkeley. In the early 1920s she pushed the idea that a vitamin a day might keep the doctor away, showed that grey hair can be caused by vitamin deficiency and that overcooking reduces the nutritional value of meat. In all, she authored more than 150 papers on nutrition and tested virtually every popular diet except, she once cracked, "the drinking man's diet...
Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in 1964 for her determination of the structure of Vitamin B12. She has also determined the X-ray structure of penicillin. Politically, Mrs. Hodgkin is probably the most left-leaning of the honorary degree recipients...
...urine after the Derby must have been residue from the Sunday treatment-although horses normally retain Butazolidin in their systems for no more than 72 hours. There was speculation that because Dancer's Image stood in ice (to reduce the ankle swelling), also received steroid and B-complex-vitamin injections, the Butazolidin was "frozen" in his system for an abnormally long time...
Mental Malnutrition. The importance of many vitamins to human health, although commercially overexploited, is well documented. What has been too often overlooked, Pauling complains, is that most of the vitamin-deficiency diseases, such as scurvy, pellagra and pernicious anemia, give early warning of their onset. Months or even years before the physical signs appear, there are changes in mental processes. To Pauling, this suggests simply that the brain is more sensitive than most other organs to even a mild deficiency. He would broaden the range of "essential nutrilites" to include vitamins, amino acids and fatty acids, and probably a host...