Word: calcium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunken Nails. From the start, Dr. Schroeder did not believe that the growing incidence of arterial disease reflected the presence of such common and natural drinking-water constituents as calcium bicarbonate, with which man has lived throughout history. What concerned the imaginative researcher was pollution by metals that modern man, the metallurgist, now scatters around him in profusion...
...disease, but it was deadlier to the males; the animals developed fatty plaques in their aortas, and showed enlargement of the heart. When rats receiving cadmium were divided into two groups, 80% of those on soft water developed high blood pressure as against only 17% of those on hard (calcium-containing) water. When the animals were treated with a drug that substituted zinc for the cadmium already in their tissues, blood pressures returned to normal...
...through a dozen spaghetti-thin plastic tubes. Lights began to flash on and off, and a mechanical pen started to trace a red line on a chart. The doctor noted with equanimity that the thin red line passing through the columns of the chart was reporting normal amounts of calcium, albumin and cholesterol in his blood. Then the pen came to the last column, cryptically marked S.G.O.T. (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase-an index of liver function). As the red line jumped to the top of the chart, above the 250 mark, the doctor exclaimed, "My God!" It was his first...
...natural nutrients have been removed during refining; it is "enriched" by replacing one-third the original amount of iron, vitamin B,, and niacin. Today thousands of children have multiple cavities because we heat milk to the point that it no longer contains adequate vitamins A and C and calcium...
...vitamins are A, D, E, C (ascorbic acid), B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), Niacin, B6, folic acid, pantothenic acid, and B12. The minerals are calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, iodine and copper...