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Nguyen works on post-mortem human brains, and authored a paper which he submitted to the Westinghouse Science Talent Search competition--the nation's oldest science contest for high school seniors. His paper dealt with how magnesium and vitamin C interact with antipsychotic drugs in the human brain and nervous system...
Those fourth grade girls who are dieting: according to experts they are possibly stunting their growth and initiating severe vitamin deficiencies. Some of them are starving themselves to death...
...noodles like lasagne are forced between metal rollers that approximate the action of a rolling pin. Cut in proper lengths, pasta dries in warmers for seven hours and is then cooled before being packed in printed cellophane bags. The only additions to the basic semolina and water blend are vitamin enrichments required in certain states, including New York, California and Connecticut. (They are, in fact, added to all pasta shipped...
Alderman and his colleagues gave patients up to two grams of niacin--more than a hundred times the recommended daily allowance of the vitamin--and found that blood cholesterol improved in 90 percent of the cases. The drug was particularly effective at raising levels of HDL (the type of cholesterol that is protective against heart disease), but it also lowered total cholesterol levels in patients taking higher doses of the drug. In general, the researchers reported, the more niacin a subject took, the greater was his improvement...
...researchers stress that this was only a pilot study, and that taking large quantities of cod liver oil at this stage of the game would be unwise. The oil contains vitamin A and vitamin D, which are beneficial in small amounts but can be dangerous in high doses. Also, while the substance does appear to improve cholesterol levels in the body, it actually contains a substantial amount of cholesterol itself, and this may act to reduce its overall potency...