Word: vitamins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what excites him most is something much simpler. In Brazil and Mexico, Coca-Cola is selling soft drinks that contain up to one-third of an adult's entire daily vitamin and mineral requirements and 10% of the protein needs. The Mexican drink has a long-haired brand name, Samson, and orange or mango flavors, though Coke can give it any color and taste the customer wants, even split pea. It is made from the whey that is left over from cheese manufacturing; using this protein-potent residue has a double benefit because most whey now is dumped into...
...entered M.I.T. at 16, got his B.S. at 19 and Ph.D. at 20. In 1937 he joined the Harvard faculty and in 1944 synthesized the antimalarial drug quinine, a project he had worked on since his teens. He then synthesized cholesterol, cortisone, several antibiotics and chlorophyll and, in 1972, vitamin B12, at that time the most intricate molecule ever constructed in a laboratory...
Woodward's work made possible the synthesis of complicated organic molecules such as chlorophyll and vitamin...
Some more mature faces are showing up in ads to match the aging of the audience. Revlon's Lauren Hutton wonders in magazine ads what to do about her skin now that she is over 30 (her answer: use Ultima II creams), and the One-A-Day vitamin girl is no longer a teen but a woman pushing...
Ruff, a devout Mormon and father of nine children, comes by his grim views after a checkered career as a college dropout, singer, actor, stockbroker, owner of a speed-reading franchise, natural vitamin distributor and real estate investment teacher. As he concedes, "Some people say that I couldn't succeed at anything, so I became a prophet of doom." A decade ago, he was $250,000 in debt after his speed-reading schools failed and he had to declare personal bankruptcy. Today he estimates his net worth at $600,000 and reports that he has paid...