Word: winick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, even for months if some food and water are available, prolonged starvation eventually disrupts vital processes. Says Dr. Buford Nichols Jr. of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine: "You keep falling back, like a military withdrawal, but finally the body just collapses." Adds Dr. Myron Winick of New York City's Columbia University Institute of Nutrition: "Victims of starvation have to adapt. But once they do, they have a very small margin for error." Death comes in many ways. The intestinal walls become damaged; severe and constant diarrhea may develop. The loss of body fluids containing electrolytes...
...conventional counterparts. Fruits and vegetables are usually fresher and come from plant varieties chosen for flavor. But all reject the faddists' claim that such foods are necessarily more nutritious. "Plants produce nutrients to aid their own growth, not to benefit those who will eat them," says Dr. Myron Winick, director of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. "There is no evidence-and no reason to believe-that organically grown plants contain any more vitamins than foods fertilized with nitrates." Nor, Winick says, is there any reason to assume that natural...
...Mental retardation. Doctors have long suspected that maternal malnutrition was responsible for low birth weight among some babies born at term. A recently released British study has shown that these babies are likely to lag behind their heavier contemporaries when they get to school. Columbia's Winick says that 80% of all brain growth takes place between conception and the age of two; growth that fails to take place during this period because of either fetal or infant malnutrition does not take place...
...choose such a partisan nutritionist as Dr. Winick to cover the International Health Fair [Oct. 23]. Though he renders a service in exposing the faddism and snake-oil huckstering in the movement, he overlooks what will be its lasting effect: turning Americans away from the plastic "long shelf life" foods of the supermarkets back to the plain, flavorsome-and more healthful-foods of the real world...
...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 circus called the second International Health Fair. TIME asked Dr. Myron Winick, director of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Medicine Writer Peter Stoler to attend the production. Here is their review...