Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things to watch for. One is anything like a repetition of the smear campaign that used radio-advertising technique to defeat Upton Sinclair eight years ago in California. Another is the "tendency of some radio programs to spoon-feed the nation on intellectual mush almost entirely deficient in every vitamin necessary to a healthy populace capable of sustaining democracy...
...Irish eat "lots of sea lettuce" which is rich in iodine. This influences their thyroids, in some mysterious manner keeps their hair from turning grey. By giving a 70-year-old woman vitamin B complex, Hauser claimed to have turned her white hair black. (In the audience last week was his 84-year-old sponsor Lady Mendl-Decorator Elsie de Wolfe-whose hair, once blue, is snow white.) Worry, said Hauser, also turns hair grey "by destroying the adrenal glands...
...blinding, throbbing, lacerating pains of migraine headache, long a baffling problem to physicians, can now be controiled by injections of vitamin B 1 . This new treatment was discussed last week by Dr. Harold Dean Palmer of the Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases...
About five years ago, Dr. Palmer read about some British scientists who discovered that pigeons deprived of vitamin B I developed the symptoms of violent headaches, suffered severe pain on exposure to strong light, loud noise. The pigeon disease seemed so similar to human migraine that Dr. Palmer had a hunch his own headaches were caused by lack of B 1 . The vitamin deficiency, he believed, upset body metabolism, produced a poisoning of body tissues. Migraine, Dr. Palmer concluded, is only a symptom of this toxemia...
...campaign to add iron and vitamins to white bread has bogged down. So declared Dr. William Henry Sebrell Jr., famed nutritionist of the U.S. Public Health Service, last week. Year ago, most U.S. bakers agreed to enrich their white bread with: i) thiamin (the "morale vitamin" B 1 ; 2) nicotinic acid (to prevent pellagra); 3) iron. Although enrichment accounts for only 3% of baking costs, less than a third of U.S. bread is now vitaminized. Reason: public apathy, bakers' indifference. One large baking company in Washington, D.C., among the first to fortify its flour, has now gone back...