Word: vitaminized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Does beta-carotene cause cancer? Will vitamin B6 damage the nerves? Can calcium weaken the kidneys? These were some of the unsettling questions raised by a story on the front page of the New York Times last week that had vitamin takers across the U.S. wondering if they--or their children--were swallowing too much of a good thing...
...long been an article of faith among health-conscious Americans that extra doses of vitamin and mineral supplements can cover a multitude of dietary sins. So it seemed like heresy last week when Jane Brody, the Times' respected health columnist, questioned the value of those supplements and the quantities they are being taken in. "There is scant evidence that vitamin and mineral supplements are beneficial [for most people]," she wrote. "Consumers are, in effect, volunteering for a vast largely unregulated experiment...
Brody's warning comes in the midst of a vitamin boom. As her article noted, Americans have more than doubled their spending on vitamins and minerals in the past six years, from $3 billion in 1990 to $6.5 billion in 1996. They have also ratcheted up the dosages they take, gulping down supplements at 10, 50, even 100 times the daily recommended levels. One-A-Day and other multivitamin products were originally designed to prevent such centuries-old nutritional deficiencies as scurvy and beriberi. But now the same micronutrients are being taken in megadoses--in effect, as drugs--to prevent...
First, stock up on nuts and seeds. Nuts and seeds are high in vitamin E. And research shows that vitamin E keeps testosterone from breaking down--and pushes that male libido into high gear...
Among those of us who have resisted growing up, it's an article of faith that we can put off growing old. We work out, we eat poached salmon, we devour alternative-medicine nostrums while gobbling antioxidant vitamin supplements, just in case. We don't ask the first baby-boomer President for much--not for universal health care, not for campaign-finance purity, not even for a tax cut. But we do count on him, as the emblem of our age, not to give in to the ravages of time. He was re-elected in part because he complied...