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...things are more fashionable among the fad-conscious today than the dietary approach to health. The Food and Drug Administration has found that one out of every five Americans believes that illness can be avoided if only they gulp enough vitamins and mineral supplements or give up processed breakfast foods for cereals made from organically grown nuts and wheat grains. Americans spend $320 million a year on vitamin pills alone, additional millions on so-called "organic" or "health" foods. Last week crowds of the faithful and their suppliers gathered at New York's Madison Square Garden for a nutritional...
...thought I'd be ready for the quietism Southern religion pushes on poor people, but I wasn't, Opiates look like Vitamin C compared to the politically deadening effect of today's sermon. And yet I can't help being ambivalent. I don't think I've ever seen a large group of people so fully focused on the same vibration at the same time. Everyone fell wholly into the rhythm of the sermon, everyone had to reach out and possess each maxim as if it were a truth of infinite wisdom that had never been expressed before. An organic...
...Ever since researchers found that a certain something in the diet promotes the growth of strong, healthy bone and thus combats rickets, they have believed that it must be a vitamin. For half a century this something has been famous as "vitamin D." Virtually all U.S. milk and much bread and breakfast cereals are fortified with it by a process developed at the University of Wisconsin in 1924 by Biologist Harry Steenbock. He patented the technique and the royalties have enriched Steenbock's Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Now a biochemist and Steenbock protégé at the same...
...Soviet sailors are among the elite of Russia's armed services, ranking in prestige with the men of the missile forces. Although there are periodic shortages of staple foods in Russia, sailors have a plentiful but monotonous diet of borsch, meat, potatoes, bread, butter and tea, supplemented by vitamin pills to make up for the absence of fresh fruit and vegetables...
...Wooster has just escaped from the clutching hands of Madeline Bassett, Sir Watkyn's daughter, and is reflecting on the joys of freedom. "I've seldom had a sharper attack of euphoria," he tells Jeeves over the eggs and bacon. "I feel full to the brim of Vitamin B. Mind you, I don't know how long it will last. Too often it is when one feels fizziest that the storm clouds begin doing their stuff...