Word: vitamined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study showed that three teaspoons of mineral oil a day cuts in half the human body's ability to absorb carotene, which is converted to vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness, various skin and internal disorders. What's more alarming, fine droplets of mineral oil can go through the intestinal wall and reach the liver and lymph nodes, where, doctors suspect, they may cause dangerous lesions. Autopsies have revealed such droplets in patients' tissues...
...kind who would think of drawing a line between a married man and an unmarried man when it came to the matter of an evening's entertainment." Next to men, she liked baked hot dogs and red wine. When she felt real low, she gave herself "vitamin" shots, and she often felt low because "they all go for young girls and skinny widows under 35. Nobody wants to sleep with a middle-aged old widow as big as a ginhouse roof. I haven't got a chance in the world...
...rest of Caldwell's characters are off the same near-caricature assembly line as Molly and Lily. For the perennial Jeeter-type there is Jethro, Putt's shiftless farmhand brother. The strait-laced minister's young wife has "vitamin" binges with Molly on the sly, finally runs off with a salesman. "He [Rev. Bigbee] won't even let me undress without turning out the lights, and I have to wear long-sleeved nightgowns that drag the floor. This morning as soon as he left I took off all my clothes and ran out into the backyard...
Distillation Products, Inc. is not worried at present about the future of the fishermen who depend on liver sales. Still, the company points out, the synthetic vitamin will probably benefit millions of people who cannot afford the natural product...
...suspected that one reason for a queen bee's long life might be her rich diet: royal jelly. Royal jelly is exceptionally rich in pantothenic acid (a B vitamin believed to prevent grey hair), and in pyridoxin and biotin (also B vitamins). Dr. Gardner mixed up a brew of these three ingredients and a substance known as sodium yeast nucleate, and fed it to some fruit flies. The exciting result: the Gardner mixture increased the fruit flies' average life span 46%; pantothenic acid alone increased...