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...year-old Quebec stevedore complained of stomach pains, weight loss, nausea, shortness of breath and a cough. Most frightening of all, his face had turned a morbid blue-grey. Doctors suspected a severe vitamin deficiency, but when 49 identical cases appeared within seven months in the Quebec area, they questioned their first diagnosis...
Some singers purge themselves with doses of castor oil, others prime themselves with such elixirs as raw eggs, whisky with sugar, iodine in milk, quinine pills, or stiff injections of vitamin C. Also popular are small doses of strychnine, which, according to one doctor, "tunes the vocal cords like violin strings." Says Dr. Geraldo de Marco, house physician at Milan's La Scala Opera: "We give so many shots that occasionally we run out and just give injections of water. The singers never know the difference, and afterward they always say how wonderfully they sang...
...Commissioner Goddard's belief that most Americans get all the vitamins and minerals they need from an ordinary, varied diet [July 1] makes me realize he is no nutritionist. He is thinking of the days when the pioneers moved west because their soil was no longer fertile. Today we have made "great strides." We grow our food on depleted soils fertilized with chemicals, sprayed with poisons. We have pasteurized, homogenized, bleached, refined and "enriched": "Enriched" flour is flour from which 25 natural nutrients have been removed during refining; it is "enriched" by replacing one-third the original amount...
Basic Needs. Vitamin-and mineral-fortified foods will have to adhere strictly to the rules. They must not be promoted in any way as effective for the treatment or prevention of any disease; also outlawed from now on is any sales pitch depending on the argument that ordinary foods will not supply adequate nutrition, or that much of the U.S. population is suffering from vitamin or mineral deficiencies...
...Some families in economically depressed areas," Dr. Goddard conceded, "do not have a varied or plentiful supply of foods, even though their diet seems to provide basic nutritional needs." But even for them, he insisted, vitamin-mineral supplements are not the answer. He suggested instead food-distribution programs to provide a more varied diet...