Word: vitaminous
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...Vitamin U is a name for a substance present in grass, hog stomach, peanuts and other ill-assorted foods. Lieut. Colonel Garnett Cheney of the Army Medical Corps thinks that stomach ulcers may come from lack of it. He once gave gastric ulcers to chicks with the help of a Uless diet...
...eats a third less than the U.S. soldier and can get along on much less than that. His usual ration in active theaters is about 3½ lbs. a day, mostly rice, generously supplemented with vitamin pills...
Repeated disappointments in cure-alls has never dulled the native U.S. penchant for medicine fads. Last week's vitamin news indicated another disillusionment...
...request of the Quartermaster General's Office, Drs. Julian Meade Ruffin and David Cayer conducted a month-long study of vitamin reactions on healthy people. Two hundred medical students and technicians at Duke University School of Medicine were given the same average American food; some took supplemental vitamins, some didn't. Result, for the vitamin eaters: "no demonstrable beneficial effect...
...from the University of Iceland in 1938 and an M.P.H. from Vanderbilt University in 1943. Before he had been reported lost at sea on November 17, Dr. Olasen had completed his requirements for the Harvard degree. Working in the special field of Nutrition, he wrote a thesis entitled, "Vitamin A and Cancer...