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...body use calcium and phosphorus. The natural source of Vitamin D is the skin when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Civilized people living in northern latitudes get insufficient sunlight, hence insufficient Vitamin D. The deficiency shows up in the bones as rickets, in the teeth as decay. Primitive northern people, the Eskimo's, suffer very little from rickets or caries. They get their Vitamin D from the great quantities of fish which they eat. Fish oils contain abundant quantities of Vitamin D (TIME. Dec. 12). "None of the usual foods supply enough of Vitamin D," says Johns...
...keep going for quite a while. But calcium, which babies need for bones, they must get from mother's or a cow's milk. If a baby takes too much calcium from its mother. she must replenish her supply by eating calcium-bearing foods. Otherwise her teeth may decay, her bones ache, her resistance to disease decline. Thus calcium (lime) is the mineral which cooks must closely watch. For most people it is more important than a dish of blood-renewing liver...
...world's future population. From England wrote Major Leonard Darwin, 82, eugenist son of Evolutionist Charles Darwin: "My firm conviction is that if widespread eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization...
...Filth and trash littered the floors. Old tin cans were strewn about a dusty library of fine volumes, furniture vanished in debris. The squalid scene with its half-mad characters was strongly suggestive of the morbid Southern melodramas of Mississippi's Author William Faulkner who specializes in social decay amid evil surroundings...
...Mead. When old Madame Colombe dies peacefully in her bed at Saint Saturnin. her children Louis. Jourdaine, Nicholas speculate on the significance of her departure. None of them anticipates its most ghastly consequence: their father, deprived of his wife's tactful authority, begins a quavering descent into senile decay. The first sign comes when Nicholas goes to bring old William Colombe to the death bed. The old man snores loudly, pretends to be asleep. After his wife's funeral, he persuades an aging adventuress to remain at Saint Saturnin, apparently plans ,to marry her. The children...