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...generations, multiple-vitamin preparations of one form or another have been a familiar fixture on many an American breakfast table. Whether or not they are prescribed by a pediatrician, they almost always boast the kind of label that assures a cautious parent he is doing right by his child. The fine print spells out "Minimum Daily Requirements" in esoteric quantities such as milligrams, U.S.P. or international units, and the average uncertain layman usually decides that if a little is good, more is surely better. The business in vitamin and mineral supplements to the U.S. food budget has grown to hundreds...
Though the FDA's notice to vitamin makers and food processors reads like another of "GoGo Goddard's" sweeping attacks, the decision had actually been in the works for four years. The Government-backed Food and Nutrition Board decided four years ago that the term "minimum daily requirement" was widely misunderstood and abused. In its place, it proposed "Recommended Dietary Allowances" of eleven vitamins and six minerals, and last week the FDA finally put those recommendations into practice.*In almost every case the allowances are well below the previous "requirements...
...Albert." A perennial debate among professors is whether subject or student comes first?and the verdict usually favors those who stress the subject. Harvard Biologist George Wald, 59, shows why. As a researcher, he has made one of the most enlightening finds of recent decades: his discovery of the Vitamin A molecule in the retina goes a long way toward explaining the physiology of eyesight. Light, it seems, makes this crooked molecule straighten out and signal the optic nerve. The very originality of such work also makes Wald a frontiers-of-research lecturer...
Wald found, he said, that each of the three essential pigments is made in the same way. They are produced by joining Vitamin A aldehyde to one of three different proteins, he said...
...artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie, they think it's a prediction." In many ways, his message is best conveyed by his pages of elaborate, cursive script, in which the occasional images are understandable while the words are illegible. "Words are like vitamin pills," he explains. "We swallow them and think we have got something valuable inside us. But we don't. When we look at a drawing, we must hunt and invent our own meaning...