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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...
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...
...week without the benefit of Harvard University Dining Services can do strange things to people. I adopted the vitamin in the morning, plenty of carbonated fluids, and a decent dinner plan for my diet. And for the first time, I envied the first-years crammed into the Union...