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...healthy people need vitamin pills? Many a doctor and nutritionist has loudly asserted that they do not. Last week the California Institute of Technology offered evidence that extra vitamins are good for almost anybody...
During the first six months, there was no visible difference in the working efficiency of the two groups-although both groups, apparently for psychological reasons, did better than a third group which got no pills at all. In the second six months, the vitamin-fed group pulled ahead. (Conclusion: taking extra vitamins usually shows no results for at least six months.) They had 19% less absenteeism, 27% less turnover (i.e., fewer quit or were fired); they also scored 2.6% higher in the company's merit ratings...
...jobs. One, fed in a certain way, yields oxalic acid, basic chemical of the blueprint industry; on a different diet it produces the gluconic acid used in medicines. The versatile Clostridium acetobutylicum, on a single diet of corn mash, produces acetone for solvents, butanol for automobile lacquers, and riboflavin (Vitamin...
...word "vitamin" is only 34 years old, and the vitamin fad is younger still. But this passage from St. Jerome's Life of St. Hilarion, written some 1,550 years ago and recently quoted by a letter writer to the British Nature, is an accurate description of vitamin A deficiency and its cure. Though ordinary olive oil contains almost no vitamin A, Nature's erudite correspondent noted that "a crude and unpurified oil such as St. Hilarion would have permitted himself" would contain enough of the vitamin to cure...
...Cheney thinks months on canned rations may have caused the ulcers, but is not quite sure just what it was in his treatment that cured them: it might have been the vitamin U or it might have been the quantity of nourishing food...