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...sufferers from acne (disfiguring skin disorder) may soon become conscious of Dr. Jon V. Straumfjord of Astoria, Ore. Nine out of ten people break out with acne during adolescence or later. Dr. Straumfjord is convinced that he can help most such sufferers, by large doses (100,000 units) of vitamin A every day. In Northwest Medicine he gives the results of his treatment of a sample group of 100 patients. They took the vitamin from three months to a year before they looked any better, but out of the 100 "79 became free, or nearly free, from the eruption...
...else may be wrong with a patient, acne always develops in a skin coarsened by "follicular hyper-keratosis"-i.e., hardening and coarsening of the tiny skin follicles (pores). This condition of the follicles, says he, "differs in no important way from the descriptions of the follicular lesions attributed to vitamin A deficiency"; in fact, he thinks the two conditions are identical...
...rough way of judging lack of vitamin A is to examine the skin, look for pebbly or horny areas on the face and upper arms or yellowish, thickened spots on the eyeballs. Dr. Henry Borsook of the California Institute of Technology last year used these criteria in examining hundreds of Lockheed workers, concluded that "nearly every subject showed evidence of vitamin A deficiency (past or present...
Soybean sprouts. Grown indoors in a flower pot or jar, they can be raised the year round from dried field soybeans, sprout in five days or less, can be cooked as quickly as a pork chop, have several times as much vitamin B complex as the bean itself, rival tomatoes in vitamin C. A crisp, tasty dish, they have been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries...
Cottonseed. The residue of cottonseed-oil making can now be processed to make it palatable, is exceptionally rich in protein and vitamin...