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...disease remained in constant residence. Tuberculosis was endemic, and so were scabrous skin diseases of every kind: abscesses, cankers, scrofula, tumors, eczema and erysipelas. In a throwback to biblical times, lepers constituted a class of pariahs living on the outskirts of villages and cities. Constant famine, rotten flour and vitamin deficiencies afflicted huge segments of society with blindness, goiter, paralysis and bone malformations that created hunchbacks and cripples. A man was lucky to survive 30, and 50 was a ripe old age. Most women, many of them succumbing to the ravages of childbirth, lived less than 30 years. There...
...pickles. There is even a sizzling rock band called the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "There are very few bad things about peppers," says David DeWitt, editor of Chile Pepper, a bimonthly magazine with a circulation of 80,000. "They have virtually no calories, no cholesterol, high fiber, high vitamin A and C content." As a result, says DeWitt, who will help put on a "Fiery Foods" show in Albuquerque, New Mexico, next February, chile has become a $3 billion industry in the U.S. alone...
...strobe lights flash and 50,000 watts of techno- house music blast from the speakers of a New York City nightclub called the Shelter. On the fringes, others watch an upside-down projection of Flintstones % cartoons or sidle up to the nonalcoholic "smart bar" for bottled water or vitamin-enriched fruit juice. "It's a good crowd tonight," observes Moby, a techno deejay with a loyal following. "I don't sense the usual nightclub aggression...
...KNEW WHY EIGHT PATIENTS ENTERED NEW England hospitals with vitamin D overdoses, but researchers wanted to find out. Too little of this crucial vitamin can lead to bone weakness and rickets, the deforming of bones in growing children. That's why D, found naturally in only a few foods (including the seriously disgusting cod liver oil), has been routinely added to milk since the 1930s. But too much of the vitamin is no bonus; the symptoms range from fatigue to urinary-tract stones to kidney malfunction -- and, in infants, the condition known as "failure to thrive," which can lead...
...little medical detective work revealed that none of the patients were taking vitamin supplements, the usual source of such overdoses. But all eight routinely drank milk from a single dairy. And when doctors tested samples of the milk, they were shocked to find that it had up to 500 times the vitamin D level marked on the label and recommended by the FDA. Worse yet, a wider study covering 13 brands of milk in five Eastern states turned up levels well below or appreciably above the suggested dosage. Infant formulas tended to be the highest, while some skim milk...