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Ever since Linus Pauling proposed in 1970 that large doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) would prevent or cure the common cold, sales of the vitamin have soared, despite the widely expressed doubts of other researchers. Three reports now cast a further shadow on Pauling's theory. In one of two studies published in the A.M.A. Journal, 311 volunteers at the National Institutes of Health took part in an experiment in which about half were given one gram of vitamin C three times daily for a nine-month period; the remainder took a placebo under the same circumstances...
...dins, everyone!" First, imported sardines, then chicken croquettes in white wine sauce, with a few Yummies to follow. That's for Samantha. For Buddy, there are flamed medallion of beef and vitamin-enriched doughnuts. Carol's getting fruit treats...
...Bangladesh, there are barely rations to provide even gruel for the starving in Dacca's crowded refugee camps. Children are so emaciated-their flesh clinging to their brittle bones-that they almost look like deformed infants. Shortages of vitamin A, iron and iodine in India and Bangladesh are increasing the incidence-especially among the young-of goiter, blindness and cretinism...
Other deficiency diseases can be equally deadly. Rickets, which results from a lack of vitamin D, can produce soft, deformed bones in children. Beriberi-caused by too little of the thiamin normally found in vegetables, liver, pork, eggs and whole grains-affects the heart, the circulatory system and the brain. Its victims are unable to remember and prone to confabulation, the concocting of stories to fill memory gaps. A lack of niacin (commonly found in brown rice, fish and meat) can produce pellagra, a deficiency disease characterized by the "four Ds": dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia and death...
Children who survive starvation remain scarred for life. No amount of vitamin D will straighten legs bowed by rickets; proper portions of essential proteins cannot undo the damage done to a growing child's brain by their absence. Brain cells require protein, and they need it from the very moment that life begins. At least 80% of all human brain growth occurs between conception and the age of two. This growth cannot take place in the fetus if the mother is malnourished, and it cannot be accomplished in the infant if he is starving. Nor will it happen later...