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...meeting, Harvard researchers reported a number of successes in treating patients with high cholesterol. One group of investigators focused on niacin, a vitamin found in foods such as meat, fish, eggs, pasta, and cereals. In small amounts, the substance has long been known to be beneficial for the skin, the nerves, and the digestive system. But according to Dr. James Alderman, a senior cardiology fellow at Beth Israel Hospital, larger doses may have cardiovascular benefits as well...
...England Journal of Medicine article called "Anatomy of an Illness," Norman Cousins, then the erudite editor of the Saturday Review, described how he had cured himself of spinal arthritis by adopting a healthy mental attitude, laughing a lot and taking vitamin C. Other diseases, Cousins implied, might also succumb to positive thinking. The article struck a responsive chord. It was reprinted in other medical journals, supported by letters to Cousins from some 3,000 doctors, and eventually expanded by the author into a briskly selling 1979 book of the same name. Despite complaints from other doctors who studied the Cousins...
...every shepherd these days is out tending his flocks in a field. To produce a more perfect wool, some Australian farmers are keeping their sheep indoors and pampering them like Park Avenue poodles. They provide tires, logs and rubber balls to keep the sheep amused, feed them a vitamin-enriched mix instead of letting them graze, and even wrap them in cloaks to protect their fleece from dirt...
...Bernie Cornfeld presided over a $2 billion financial empire that spanned the globe. Enter Robert Vesco, who in 1971 managed to gain control of the company before being charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with looting IOS of $224 million. Now Cornfeld, 57, has resurfaced with his own vitamin company, called Better Living Enterprises. The vitamins, he claims, will help poor sleepers and the overweight and even boost people's sex drives. Waving away suggestions that the virtues of his vitamins might be just a bit overstated, Cornfeld predicts, "Some may have doubts until they've tried...
...Bati last week more than 1,000 women and children were packed together in one tin-roofed shed. An eerie silence hung over the entire assembly. In one corner Janet Harris, a British nurse, was feeding vitamin-and salt-enriched water to children too weak to help themselves. It was a dispiriting, and often futile, task. "You can tell who will live and who will die," she said. "The dying ones have no light left in their eyes...