Word: vitamins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect of the happiness beetles, thinks Father Gusinde, is due to their vitamin T, which gives "an agreeable feeling." Other insects contain it too, and other insect-eating people are notably contented with their miserable lots. The only trouble is that neighboring people, who do not eat happiness beetles, get pushy and steal their women. When Father Gusinde, no beetle eater, was in the country of the tranquilized Pygmies, the young women were hidden. During his stay he saw only one, about 15 years old, darting across a clearing. The Pygmies were taking no chances with a non-beetle eater...
...Long in the business of making fertilizer from sewage, the Milwaukee City Sewerage Commission got into a new line through a commercial subcontractor: extracting the growth-vital, anti-anemia vitamin B12 from the fertilizer...
...anguished letter to the A.M.A. Journal complaining that the lay magazines had gone overboard and had neglected to mention the dangers of these diets for people not under a doctor's care. Main problem: drastic reduction of protein foods can lead to cirrhosis of the liver and vitamin-deficiency diseases. (The "fabulous formula" is essentially the same as a diet designed to produce liver disease and hardening of the arteries in laboratory experiments with animals.) Cutting down on proteins is especially dangerous for those in middle age and beyond: they need more protein, not less; also, they need less...
...wife and his children, one of them a physician, cared for him with remarkable devotion and detail. At first he was fed liquids through a tube in his nose; later, fluids were poured into his mouth while his nose was held. He got an enema every other day, vitamin injections daily. His limbs were massaged regularly. Day and night for seven years, he was shifted every half hour from one position to another to keep his circulation unimpaired. When, in the second year, he developed an abscess, he was operated on without anesthesia. In the fourth year he was cured...
...University of California's Dr. Henry Moon and Dr. James Rinehart, this is a sugar protein. Only after that, they say, does the cholesterol appear. And they do not believe that the sugar protein is the original villain: that, the San Francisco researchers contend, is a deficiency of vitamin B 6 (found in liver and egg yolk...