Word: vitamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stare added that he knows of no one among the approximately 150 people working in nutrition at the School of Public Health who takes vitamin supplements...
...with cereal-based dog food, it might even surpass in nutrients the diets of snack-happy American teenagers. One of the Oklahoma students' tastier recipes, for instance, calls for two cups of Gaines Gravy Train, heated with water, salt, pepper and garlic. That provides much more protein and vitamin A and B1 than does a lunch of a three-ounce hamburger with French fries and a cola - at about one-tenth of the cost. Said Arnall: "The dog is eating better than we are." Well, cheaper, anyhow...
...nourishment. Next door is a restaurant; it is not until he examines the menu that he sees the words "health foods"-and by then it is a little late to run. On the shelves are strange labels: Granola, mung beans, Tiger's Milk, lecithin, all at nonsensical prices. Vitamin E, he learns, is expected to cure everything but the common cold; Vitamin C takes care of that. Adelle Davis has become the Brillat-Savarin of the counterculture. Her self-help books beckon from the paperback rack: Let's Get Well, Let's Have Healthy Children...
...VITAMINS and other supplements will come under strict new controls. Foods containing less than 50% of the RDA of any vitamin need only carry standard nutritional information on their labels. Those containing up to 150% of the RDA must meet federal standards for dietary supplements. But those containing more than 150% of the RDA must be labeled and marketed as drugs. The purpose is to curb excessive use of vitamins, which is often useless and occasionally dangerous. (The FDA has decided that such newly designated drugs would be sold over the counter, rather than by prescription...
Despite the possibility of court action by vitamin producers, the FDA anticipates few problems enforcing its new rules. The agency has 17 testing labs across the country to monitor products and ample authority to recall or seize those that fail to meet its standards. Del Monte and Pillsbury, two of the nation's largest food producers, already include nutritional information on the labels of their products; food chains like Safeway and National are planning to do so. Others are expected to go along to satisfy both the FDA and consumers, who are becoming increasingly sophisticated about what they...