Word: vitaminic
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...poverty in Nepal and the toll it exacts on its smallest citizens are staggering. Twenty years ago, the infant-mortality rate was 133 for every 1,000 births, most of the babies claimed by pneumonia and diarrhea. By the 1980s, it was clear that a lack of vitamin A in the Nepalese diet was a factor in the high rates of infant mortality and in a form of blindness. All it would take to reduce both would be a low-cost vitamin-A capsule taken as infrequently as twice a year...
Shrestha had some ideas. A onetime Peace Corps employee who earned his master's degree in international health at Tufts University in Massachusetts, he returned to Nepal in 1991, at about the time the vitamin program was getting under way, and offered his assistance...
...excerpt from Dr. Andrew Weil's book Healthy Aging was well presented [Oct. 17]. Weil gave a balanced view of nutritional advice on aging, and I was glad to see someone point out the dubious nature of the antiaging business. Most of what we spend on vitamin supplements and health food represents unreasonable expectations of our ability to control aging. Such purchases only distract from what is truly important: taking the steps necessary to delay age-related disease. I will read Weil's entire book and recommend this article to my patients. JOHN KAUFMANN, M.D. Boca Raton...
...Rwanda, the motorcycle riders carrying medicines across roadless stretches of Uganda, the survivor of the refugee camps fighting TB in Cambodia, the rape victim who speaks out about AIDS to young people in conservative Muslim villages in Nigeria. There are the grandmothers in Nepal with their little bags of vitamin A, fighting infant mortality; the nutritionist in Honduras teaching mothers hygiene and food handling; the backpack medics who slip from Thailand into Myanmar to deliver care village by village, risking arrest if they are found...
...presence on campus, a rule intended to prevent Harvard from becoming a giant billboard. But then, how could Veritas Records partner with Adidas for last year’s CD-release party at the Roxy? And how come a Kirkland House junior had almost 600 hundred promotional bottles of Vitamin Water sitting in his room last spring, ready for distribution at parties and special events? As Friedman and Vandenberg are surely learning, Harvard’s regulation of corporate sponsorship allows for a vast gray area—and unless the JetBlue situation is an indication of a renewed vigilance...