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...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...
...These are days when good nutrition takes on a new importance. It's downright patriotic to know your vitamin alphabet . . . and to see that your three meals . . . are well balanced. America must be strong -Americans must be strong...
What working men need, declared the Council, are nourishing, vitamin-rich snacks between meals to still their hunger pangs, keep up their blood-sugar level, provide energy. The doctors suggested...