Word: vitaminized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also sold in pill form under various labels, including vitamin...
Friedrich surveys the field of cure from traditional psychoanalysis to vitamin therapy. He treats such ravagers of the mind as alcohol, stress, loneliness and time. But he deliberately avoids the ruts of "quasi-scientific categories." He is more comfortable in the humanities, where the trail of insanity fades into the mysteries of man's relationship with nature and his gods. Friedrich is also up on the inhumanities: for example, the Soviet Union's practice of treating some political dissidents as psychotics...
...those who do only one of these things. The report also implicates diet; for example, the incidence of bowel cancer seems to increase with the amount of meat and fatty foods consumed. Cancer may also be linked with dietary deficiencies; one researcher pointed out that an absence of vitamin A may contribute to the development of several kinds of cancer, including cancer of the salivary glands. Finally, the specialists noted, there may be a connection between genital cancer and lifestyle. For example, cancer of the penis occurs more commonly in regions where circumcision and bodily cleanliness are not practiced, while...
Mark had to be put in the hospital three times. Thorazine, shock treatments, a high-protein diet, and vitamin therapy put him back in circulation. To day he is no longer a Canadian farmer but a student of biochemistry who plans to go to medical school...
...like a baby gurgling on its pablum (greasily, in big, viscous bubbles), his Coors can outstretched as he flexed to show off his "megalopulous muscles," twittering about the floor like a wind-up toy (skittering into walls ever so lightly and then reversing his direction), telling us about his "Vitamin A" (as in acid) as Gay went to get his flute so he could demonstrate that he was not yet Ian Anderson...