Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christmas bonuses and free Florida vacations were now out, but free lunches, music, vitamin pills would be continued. Jahco, which will lose $1.5 million this year, hopes to get in the black this month, hit its production stride next year. Already on hand, said Foy, were $56 million worth of orders for refrigerator compressors, fractional horsepower motors, ball bearings, magnetos...
...alcoholic's hangover, says Dr. Lolli, differs fundamentally from that of a casual drinker: the alcoholic, after a drinking bout, is beset with uncontrollable tremors, nameless fears, insomnia, an enlarged liver, all sorts of neurotic digestive disorders. He badly needs food, because a prolonged diet of alcohol produces vitamin and mineral deficiencies...
Misconception No. 1. Prolonged drinking, he thinks, has made him an irreparable physical wreck. The fact: alcohol weakens the body, but seldom damages it permanently. Aside from certain easily remediable ailments (such as a temporarily enlarged liver, vitamin deficiency diseases-e.g., pellagra), there are few disorders traceable to drinking. Cirrhosis of the liver, one of the few which seems to have a connection, attacks only 8% of drunkards (v. 1% in the general population...
Deficiency. In Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Bernado Arroyo decided to kill herself, swallowed some pills, was rushed to the hospital, had her stomach pumped, learned she had taken vitamin tablets...
...disease seems to strike hardest at the healthiest; because children with vitamin deficiencies seem to resist infection, doctors surmise that the polio virus does not thrive on undernourished body cells...