Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though many a New Englander will be outraged and incredulous to hear it, starting a meal with raw clams is risky. Clams contain a powerful enzyme that destroys much of the vitamin B-1 in other foods. (If you must eat clams, have them cooked -it destroys the enzyme-or compensate with extra B-1 in the rest of the meal...
...When you take aspirin, take some vitamin K (found in alfalfa, kale, hog liver, etc.) with it; aspirin depletes the body's K supply...
Impressed, Dr. Shute decided to try the experiment on humans, using Skelton's principle of large, concentrated doses of the vitamin. A friend, Dr. Arthur Berge Francis Vogelsang, had just the man: a 68-year-old pensioner who was dying of hypertensive heart disease and hemorrhages, was due to have his spleen removed the next day. The attending surgeon was willing to try the vitamin, since he was afraid the patient would die on the operating table. Within a week after treatment the old man was out of bed, bustling around the hospital ward and helping nurses with...
Large, concentrated doses of vitamin E, said Dr. Vogelsang, benefited four types of heart ailment (95% of the total): arteriosclerotic, hypertensive, rheumatic, old & new coronary heart disease. The vitamin helps a failing heart. It eliminates anginal pain. It is nontoxic. But, he warned, it must be taken continuously, like digitalis and insulin, and must not be taken simultaneously with other drugs...
...Canadian doctors believe that vitamin E prevents the destruction of the platelets (small, light grey corpuscles which probably play a role in the clotting of the blood) and increases the blood supply to the individual muscles of the heart, thus effecting muscle repair. Their research indicated that the tremendous increase in heart disease deaths might be due to overrefinement of foods-the polishing of rice, removal of vitamin values from flour, growing of vegetables in greenhouses (thus excluding ultraviolet light), picking of green oranges. All these deprive humans of their ordinary supply of vitamin...