Word: vitaminized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Euglena gracille, a simple, one-celled organism--used in the laboratory to measure the level of vitamin B-12 in the blood of anemic patients--is now being employed in studies to determine the effect of metal deficiencies on nucleic acid and protein metabolism...
Normally found in ponds, the flagellate forms chloroplasts and carries on photosynthesis when exposed to light. It requires vitamin B for growth...
...authority of the director (in this case, Marc Daniels), Olivier did his job with quiet docility, making minor requests: he had his "brandy" changed from Coca-Cola to tea. But he soon became as exhausted as the fugitive priest himself, and called in a doctor to give him a vitamin injection (the doctor wrote out a bill for $15 and misspelled Olivier's name...
...will spend $890 million in 1961 on medical research-and even as it does so, the U.S. public will spend $1 billion for quack remedies and gadgets and dietary health fads. By best estimates, $350 million will go for vitamin supplements, mostly self-prescribed and not needed, and $150 million for equally unnecessary laxatives. While the nation's medical centers spend $111 million seeking causes and cures for cancer, the public will shoot $50 million for quack cancer remedies. With arthritis and rheumatism the comparison is still worse: $6,500,000 for legitimate research, but $250 million wasted...
...these days of feature-oriented newspapers and vitamin-supplement television, the magazine industry is deathly sick. Only T.V. Guide and Playboy are thriving; Coronet has just gone the way of Collier's,and the Post is en route to financial ruin...