The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-15
By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.

Nobody knows the cause or causes of arteriosclarosis.
 My ow nnotion, is that arterios- clerosls, like decay of the teeth, is process of physical degeneration, lnVolution, due chiefly to steady long continued deficiency of cal- cium, phosphorus and vitamin D. In other words believe arteriosclero- sis is 8 nutritional deficiency disease.
 By steady long-contlnued deficien- cy of calcium, phosphorus and vita min D mean lifetime of 1t.
 Actually this lifetime nutritional deficiency begins, in many instan- Ices, before you are born, although nowadays 1t is the practice of good physicians to see that the prospec- tive mother supplements her diet with vitmain D (which Is essential for utilization of calcium and pho- phorus) and follows a diet that. pro- vides adequate proportions of cal- cium and phosphorus.
 Moreover physicians now usually recommend feeding infants daily rations of vitamin D for the same purpose, although prevention of ric- kets Is the purpose commonly speci- fled.
 I have often quoted the observa- tion made by investigators for the National Research Council in Eng land after years of study, that the time of greatest calcium deficiency is early youth, between the ages of eight and eighteen years. This is rampant, not only in England, but in America, too.
 Remember, too what Prof, H. c. Sherman said:
 Calcium constitutes larger proportion of the body weight than does any other of the mineral ele- ments, 99 per cent in the Skeletal system, Hence the ordinary mixed diet of Americans and Europeans, at least among dwellers in cities and towns, is probably more often de- ficient in calcium than in any other chemical clement"
 Malford W. Thewlis, M. D., in his book on Geriatrics (1946) says:
 Tn my Investigations of 200 persons past the age of 60, I found that the chief difficulties were ex- cessive foods, especially carbohy- drates and fats, insufficient cal- cium and vitamin c intake"
 Earnest P, Boas, M. D., says in his Treatment of the Patient Past Fifty" (Year Book Publishers, Chi cago, 4D:
 Adults experience a steady, long, continued loss of calcium through the years. This does not become su- perficially manifest because the great calcium stores in the bones constantly make up for the calcium losses in the blood and tissues. As Q result of this constant depletion the bones become poor in calcium and more fragile"
 That's all for today, children. Any way the bell has rung, and I have just six minutes to get to the bowl ing green, six long blocks away. What odds do you offer2
 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 Neglected Child Habits 1 AoJNAAOAOBASV ouJo PcAolotSllCe VI bed-wetting in a child past four years of age is usually due to the parents ignorance. (R. J. Al
 Answer-Well? Such habits as thumb sucking, nail-biting, bed- wetting require kindly, patient treatment. You get nowhere trying to scold, ridicule or shame the child. Send stamped self addressed en- velope and ask in writing-no clip- ping, please-for pamphlet on nail- biting, thumb-sucking, bed-wetting, stuttering-whichever one you need. If you ask for more than one, in- close ten cents for each additional pamphlet you want.
 Eye TranSplantatiOn, My Eye
 Our high school class arguing about transplanting eyes. Is 1t pos- sible to transplant an eye from one person to another? (Miss W. L.)
 Answer-No. The transplanting" operation refers to grating, as you might call 1t, small portions of cor- nea (the transparent covering of the eye) to replace cornea surface cover-