Word: vitaminous
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...days, almost exactly, a nightmarish experience occurs. They have been thoroughly warned, and the prisoners await the moment with great alarm. They are struck by something called nystagmus, a loss of muscular control due to severe vitamin deficiency. If they look sideways, their eyes begin to gyrate wildly and uncontrollably, first horizontally and then vertically. The prisoners struggle to stare straight forward, even cupping their hands against the sides of their heads, but they cannot help themselves. Francis Hughes, 25, the second striker to die, even constructed cotton gauze blinders around his eyes...
...royal love match. Here, however, fate has been kind; Lady Diana's step-grandmother Barbara Cartland has written some 300 successful novels in which the hero and heroine, after some troubled times, marry and live happily ever after. Now 80 and buoyed up by honey and vitamin pills, this estimable lady still turns out several thousand words a day, and altogether seems to be perfectly cast as laureate extraordinary in the century of the common monarch...
...long small intestine. Because food passes through her truncated bowel so quickly, she does not get needed nutrients or fluids. To stay alive, she must eat eleven full meals a day,* a total of 20,000 calories. She also receives supplemental fluids intravenously and vitamin injections. At 5 ft. 4 in., she weighs...
Last week there was also encouraging news about helping babies with genetic disorders-while they are still in the womb. The success, described by doctors at the University of California in San Francisco, was in a tiny patient with a rare inherited disease called biotin dependency. Biotin, a B vitamin, is necessary for certain metabolic processes. In people with the disease, the body's use of biotin is somehow disrupted. Symptoms include hair loss, lethargy, coma and susceptibility to infection. The only treatment is daily doses of the vitamin...
...wrote and lived with that prodigious energy you have when you're 22 or 23 or 25. Now I have to walk around thinking very seriously about what I have to do today and taking vitamin pills...