The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-22
TT ISN'T THE TAN BUT
 THE V.T-T-E

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 Just why do we regard a coat of tan as 8 part of the picture of health, vigor and vitalityp
 Otfhand one might say it is be- cause so many people return. from vacations with a coat of tan and obviously improved health and fit- ness. We come to think of tan as synonymous with health, by aSso- ciation of ideas. Freckles, too, in a way. l say "we," meaning people in general. Not we doctors. Darn it, a doctor looks at things through glass Of a different tint. I can't get my mind off from vitamin D when I see @ coat of tan, even the best fitting coat on the figure And can't admire good posture without think ing of scoliosis, lordosis, viscerop- tosis and other morbid things. Some readers may suspect I'm just loafer, but the truth, l swear, is that l frequent the bowling green because there, for two or three hours, as any devotee of bowls will testify, one forgets every blessed Cor damnedD thing in the world but the business of insinuating ones bowl between ones opponents bowl and the jack.
 There's nothing particularly healthy about brown. Nothing par ticularly sanitary or "antiseptc" about white. Some people are too easily misled by the association of ideas. The most frightful breaches of aseptic technique may occur in a hospital elaborately equipped with white enamel accessories, men in white and nurses crowned and masked as for a sequence on stage z.
 We should learn to associate tan with the manufacture of vitamin D. I do not mean to imply that this is all there is in sunshine and open air life. But we know, at any rate, that sunlight direct or re- tiected or diffuse daylight in @ shaded place or even light screened through cloud, mist, fog, and the smoke or dust of city air, actiyates ergosterol in the skin and converts 1t into voisterol, Vitamin D. So we should regard tanning as an Index or measure of the state of the indi- calcium phosphorus meta bollsm, for vitamin D controls cal- cium- phosphorus metabolism. If the supply Of vitamin D is insuffi- cient the assimilation. utilization and retention Of calcium and phos- phorus in the body cannot De nor- nal
 Normal calcium metabolism (nev- CT mind the phosphorus, it will be all right If the calcium metabolIsm Is right) spells V-I-T-E. Can't stop to define vite now - consult the booklet "The ' Keys to Vite," mail ed on request If you inclose twenty five cents and stamped self ad- dressed envelope. If you are con- cerned about growing children send ten cents and stamped self address ed envelope for booklet V-I-T.E Spells Youth" But, hold on here, I'm meeting myself coming, or so 1t may seem to the uninitiated. Don't toss the paper aside. I'm not giving you the run-around. I honestly be- ieve good calcium metaboliSm. an adequate daily intake of calicum md vitamin D, is a prime factor of health, vite. youth, whether you Ire sevently days, seventy months ,r seventy years old.
 QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Injection Treatment of Internal
 Piles
 Please recommend a doctor in
 - who can give the injection reatment for hemorrhoids, l am uffering from them. the internal lind. (C. P. P0'
 Answer--1m sorry, l have for- otten the name of a physician in our city who gives the treatment. Almost any physician who treats lemorrhoids at all uses this method oday, in preference to the crude id hospital method.
 Bicycle Riding
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