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...more fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C (oranges, broccoli and tomatoes) and beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A found in squash, carrots and other yellow and green vegetables. Both substances inhibit the formation of chemically induced cancers in laboratory tests; both are associated with lower cancer rates in human populations. The committee counseled against high-dose vitamin pills because of insufficient evidence about their health benefits. High doses of vitamin A, it added, can be toxic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Diet | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...salted peanuts. Thanks in part to the sodium in baking powder and baking soda, baked goods and cereals are the No. 1 source of sodium in the diet of many Americans. Preservatives such as sodium benzoate and sodium nitrite and flavorings like monosodium glutamate (MSG) also contribute. Even vitamin C is often added to foods in the culpable form of sodium ascorbate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salt: A New Villain? | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...National Academy of Sciences and biochemist who earned international recognition for his discoveries on the nutritional causes of disease; of cancer; in Boston. Under Handler's direction, the academy sponsored hundreds of studies on drugs, food and the environment. His investigations into the link between pellagra and vitamin B deficiencies helped erase the disease in rural areas of the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 11, 1982 | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

Perhaps the most popular new folk remedy of modern times is ascorbic acid, a.k.a. vitamin C. Ever since Nobel-Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling popularized this remedy in the 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, many people have become convinced that big doses of ascorbic acid help ward off or ameliorate colds; controlled experiments, however, have failed "to provide proof of the claim. Some folk remedies out of folklore (rub socks with onions, coat body with Vaseline) are hard to consider with a straight face, and a great many others irresistibly bring to mind Robert Benchley's personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Secret Life of the Common Cold | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...precise cause of the strange malady. Samples analyzed so far have contained a number of foreign compounds, among them aniline, azobenzene, and anilide oils. But none of them has previously given rise to the symptoms common to the Spanish epidemic. Similarly, a number of treatments-ranging from megadoses of vitamin E to antibiotics and cortisone-have been tried, but no effective remedy has been found. Researchers were also puzzled by the fact that the disease struck some members of a family and left others unaffected, even though everyone was eating the same food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spain's Lethal Cooking Oil | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

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