The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-15

clum phosphate In the teeth, bones and various tissues. Faults in cal- cium metabolism are responsible for many everyday complaints ranging from hives to headaches, but we cant go into all that here.
 A little while ago l mentioned the deposits of lime (calcium) which occur in the resignation stage of arteriosclerosi Whether shortage of vitamins has any bear. ing on that I don't know, but ] urge you, old timer, to get your op- timal ration of vitamins every day. even if you just feel old. Don't get queer notions about 1t, though. So far as 1 know, vitamin D neither causes nor cures hardening of the arteries.
 It has been estimated that the yolk of an egg a day will provide enough vitamin D for an adult, but 1t would require the yolks of nearly a dozen eggs to provide enough for baby or young child. The fetus demands stiil more calcium than the adult, and being q parasite take the calcium 1t demands from the mothers tissues if necessary.
 Therefore the prospective moth- CT must take enough vltamin D to insure metaboiism of all the cal- cium and phosphorus the develop ing fotus demands and then some for her own use. else her teeth, bones, and tissues generally will suffer the consequences. To insure this, 1t Is now the general prac- tice to give the expectant mother & daily ration of fish-liver oil, or Of one of the irradiated sterols throughout pregnancy, and then to continue giving the baby daily ration of vitamin D. from the age of a month up to the end of the first year.
 Perhaps the most satisfactory way to insure child an adequate ration of vitamin D Is by feeding the child Q quart of vltamin D milk daily. vltamin D milk Is now widely distributed by dairies; 1t costs q cent quart more than or. dinary milk. Irradiated vitanin D milk is milk which has been ex. posed to ultraviolet ray which i'm. parts vitamin D influence. Metab. olized vitamin D milk is milk from cows that receive daily ration of irradiated yeast, which impnrts na- tural vitamin D to the milk. l should prefer the metabolized vita. min D milk, because irradiation, unless carefully controlled, may destroy some of the vitamin A in the milk.
 Tho original source of all vita. min D of not all known vitamins) Is sunlight. The ultraviolet rays of sunshine impart something to the microscopic diatoms, maybe life it- self. Tho dlatoms arc eaten by plankton. The piankton by small fish and crustaceans. and these by larger fish, birds or animals, which carry the vitamins to the land. An. imals or man cannot manufacture vitamins sufficient for their needs. but must get them in food.
 Still Holy
 belong to the 'holy fright" class. Weighing 122 pounds, 6s inches tall. last summer l found doctor who was progressive enough to give me insulin. Received 10 units three times a day for months. At the end of that period I had gained just a quarter or pound. How do you like thatv (M. c. W.) I am 25. and in good health. ,.
 Answer-Perhaps by now. with ont the insulin, you would nave been waited straight up to heaven. Must have been catch in 1t some- where, but at this distance can't surmise just what was the matter Maybe you were short on vitamins. Maybe the insulin was inert. The great majority of poor skinny geeks put on poundage with insuiin treatment.
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 General examination last Jan nary showed everything o. k. ex- cept cervix tear. which I had when my only child was born ten years ago. My doctor says he never mends these tears at time of con- finement and advises I wait till menopause. Mother insists see another doctor {, (Mrs w. F.)
 Answer--If everything is o. k. why look for trouble? If you rave any symptoms or any complaint. discuss it with your physician. Most women have some degree of iaceration of the ceryix at child birth. Such Iacerations heal spon. tane0usly # the woman rests for week or more after delivery and avoids deuches or other interfer- ence with the normal healing pro- cess.