Word: vitamins
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...dispute that has been brewing between the Food and Drug Administration and the vitamin industry for two years -- and which reached Capitol Hill last week -- is more than Hollywood's latest cause celebre. Reports that the FDA was planning to crack down on supplements touched a nerve among the 75 million Americans who take vitamins, minerals and other dietary aids every day -- including large numbers of new-age leftists and right-wing libertarians who may disagree about almost everything else but who share a basic distrust of the government-medical complex. Over the past few months, thousands of letters, postcards...
...against cancer -- be backed up by "significant scientific agreement." Under food-labeling laws passed by Congress three years ago and scheduled to go into effect Dec. 5, products that fail to meet this test will have to be relabeled. The products themselves, however, will not be banned. "The great vitamin ban of 1993 is a hoax," says Bruce Silverglade of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, one of several independent groups that support the FDA. "We need the government to sort fact from fiction...
Original Dining Hall Recipe: If you mix orange juice and diet coke, you get most of the vitamin C with half the calories. Also, you get an interesting layered drink which changes color as you drink it and resembles the contents of a sep [separatory] funnel in organic chemistry...
...Injections of vitamin K are the routine treatment for newborns who suffer from a disease that can lead to potentially fatal episodes of spontaneous internal bleeding. Although some research suggested that the treatment could increase the risk of childhood cancer, parents can now relax: a definitive new study says there's no such risk...
...More evidence that vitamins can prolong life: a five-year study of nearly 30,000 peasants from rural China discovered that vitamin E, beta-carotene and selenium supplements appeared to reduce cancer deaths 13% and deaths from all causes...