Word: vitamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Death of the Vitamin Pioneer...
...them polished rice; then natural rice, with all its bran coating. When the pigeons got the coating they thrived; when they did not they suffered from polyneuritis. Obviously, the bran-fed pigeons were getting a nutrient that the others were not. Funk concentrated the nutrient, now known as vitamin...
...Funk continued his cancer research, later theorized that oncotine and oncostimuline affect the growth of tumors, and postulated that an imbalance of the two might cause the disease. All the while, he retained more than a proprietary interest in nutrition, served as a research consultant to the U.S. Vitamin & Pharmaceutical Corp., helped develop artificial vitamins...
...Including Dr. E. V. McCollum, a discoverer of vitamin A (1913), who died recently at 88 (TIME...
Today, Mr. U.S. finishes his breakfast of frozen orange juice and diet-bread toast, pops a vitamin pill into his mouth, steps into his fastback Barracuda, punches the tape deck button for swing or symphony, and heads for the freeway. The six-lane concrete strip lets him proceed at 65 m.p.h. toward his office in town-except when there are so many other cars going the same way that he can listen to all of Beethoven's Ninth. By the time he gets to the office, his wife has already called-from the pink, push-button Princess extension...