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Researchers have attempted to remove the lactose from milk. That solution is both expensive and self-defeating because it lowers the milk's vitamin content. Two University of Rhode Island researchers have announced a more practical recipe. Dr. Arthur Rand, a professor of food chemistry, and James Hourigan, a graduate assistant, have developed a process for changing lactose into glucose and galactose, two simple sugars that most people can digest. The process could enable millions to drink milk without misery...
...drinking are beyond dispute. A pint of whisky a day, enough to make eight or ten ordinary highballs, provides about 1,200 calories-roughly half the ordinary energy requirement-without any food value. As a result, an alcoholic usually has a weak appetite and often suffers from malnutrition and vitamin deficiency. The slack cannot be taken up by popping vitamin pills; heavy alcohol consumption impairs the body's utilization of vitamins. At the same time, excessive intake of alcohol also affects the production and activity of certain disease-fighting white blood cells, giving the alcoholic a particularly...
...Emanuel Rubin and Charles Lieber selected baboons for their study because the primates live as long as 15 years, far longer than most other laboratory animals, and have livers that are similar to man's. The researchers put 26 baboons on highprotein, high-vitamin diets, but for 13 of the animals substituted ethanol, or grain alcohol, for much of the carbohydrate portion of the dietary requirements. The alcohol provided the animals with fully half their caloric intake...
Specifically, the researchers found "there was no difference in the number of episodes" of illness but that the difference in length and severity of respiratory illnesses within the Vitamin C group was "highly significant...
Younger children on the vitamin missed an average of 28 per cent fewer school days and older youngsters spent 34 per cent fewer days ill than those in the control group. By observing in class children with mild colds, the researchers found that the younger students experienced 27 per cent fewer symptoms like cough, runny nose and watery eyes. Only the older girls, however, showed any decrease in cold symptoms...