Word: vitamin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Aware that she is "eating for two," a pregnant woman is likely to make sure she gets sufficient bread, cereals and milk-all of which, because of the long campaign to wipe out rickets, are usually fortified with vitamin D. Her obstetrician may well prescribe a daily capsule of supplemental calcium and vitamin D. And while the mother-to-be is taking it easy, she may do a little sunbathing, which stimulates her system to make still more vitamin D. It all adds up not only to a hefty dose of the vital vitamin but to some risk that...
Thick & Narrow. Dr. Robert E. Cooke, pediatrician in chief at Johns Hopkins' exciting new Children's Medical and Surgical Center (TIME, May 22) based his warning on findings that originated in Britain, after the National Health Service offered free vitamins galore and several cases of vitamin D poisoning were recorded. Similar results were observed in Germany. And now, says Dr. Cooke, he is convinced that excessive vitamin D was responsible for the mental retardation and other abnormalities of 13 babies seen in 18 months in his hospital. This indicates that there are several hundred cases a year...
...gallery while carrying the delicate crystals with which she worked. But whatever the circumstances, she maintained an elegance of appearance and achievement. No distraction was enough to spoil the work that led to a thorough knowledge of the penicillin molecule, and to the discovery of the structure of Vitamin B12, the recalcitrant molecule with a cobalt atom heart that is essential to human life...
...appears on the television screen. She carries an ice cream cone. It certainly looks good enough to eat-but is it? A hoarse, anxious, motherlike voice is heard: "Know what people used to do? They used to explode bombs in the air. You know children should have lots of vitamin A and calcium. But they shouldn't have strontium 90 or cesium 137. These things come from atomic bombs, and they're radioactive. They make you die. Do you know what people finally did? They got together and signed a nuclear test ban treaty. And then the radioactive...
...detaining 40 looters, Vietnamese troops in Danang merely watched the proceedings. Their Buddhist commander, General Nguyen Chanh Thi, appeared once, drew cheers from the rioters, retired after inspecting the ruins. Mobs broke into a church and smashed a statue of the Virgin. Roving bands looted everything, including stocks of vitamin pills. When prostitutes in a second-story window heckled the rioters, they burst in, pitched one girl from the window, killing her. Another gang stormed a hospital, dragged out a Catholic patient and speared him to death. Three Catholics were lynched, one hanged from a tree with barbed wire. Some...