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February 5, 1915, the first experiment sponsored by the
Public Health Department in order to prove that some diseases
are caused by dietary deficiencies began. Researcher Joseph
Goldberger consequently proved that the skin disease pellagra
is caused by poor diet. Come along with Tidbits as we consider
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VITAL AMINES
• In 1911, Polish scientist Casimir Funk theorized that diseases
such as beriberi and scurvy were caused by a lack of
substances he dubbed “vital amines.” This term was shortened
to ‘vitamins.’ He was the first to prove that these illnesses were
not caused by exterior factors but were simply caused by
dietary deficiency.
• Other researchers began isolating these vital amines, calling
them simply “vital amine factor A”, “factor B” and “factor C”
and so forth. The lack of factor A caused blindness; the lack
of factor B caused beriberi; the lack of factor C caused scurvy;
the lack of factor D caused rickets; the lack of factor E caused
miscarriage, and so on.
• At one time there were vitamins A through P. Subsequent
research revealed many duplicates, so some were scratched
from the list. That's why there is no vitamin F today.
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NIACIN
• "Pellagra" is Italian for "rough skin." It's a disease whose
first symptom is irritated skin, and it is eventually fatal if left
untreated.
• In the early 1900s pellagra was rampant in the deep south,
and the Public Health Service hired Joseph Goldberger to
find out why. His first discovery was that it was common
among prisoners, children in orphanages, and patients in
mental institutions. Yet he never found a single doctor, nurse,
nun, or prison guard who also had the disease.
• Theory held that pellagra was a contagious disease, but
Goldberger became convinced that it was tied to the diet.
In the Methodist Orphan Asylum in Jackson, Mississippi,
one third of the children suffered from pellagra. However,
all of the victims were between the ages of 6 and 12. He
discovered that only the children between the ages of 1 and
5 were given milk to drink. And only the children over the age
of 12 were given much meat. Between the age of 6 and 12,
the orphans received no milk and little meat. They survived
on grits, mush, and sow belly. And they got pellagra.
• Goldberger convinced the orphanage to change the
children's diet, giving them lots of meat, milk, and eggs.
Pellagra disappeared.
• Wanting to be thorough, Goldberger decided that if he
could cure the disease with proper diet, he ought to be
able to induce it through faulty diet. At the prison farm near
Jackson, he signed up 12 prisoners who were willing to go
on a special diet in exchange for a pardon at the end of six
months. He fed them biscuits, mush, grits, gravy, syrup, corn
bread, rice, coffee and sugar. After a few weeks, the men
started showing the signs of pellagra. (Continued next page)
• Goldberger went one step further to prove pellagra was not
contagious. He collected 16 volunteers, including his wife
and himself, who did everything to contract pellagra through
injections and secretions and bodily contact with sufferers.
No one got the disease.
• Goldberger spent the rest of his life in the laboratory trying
to discover what factor meat, milk, and egg yolks had in
common. By 1926, Goldberger established that a small
amount of brewer's yeast prevented pellagra, yet he never
knew why.
• It was Conrad Elvehjem who discovered that pellagra
is caused by a lack of the B vitamin niacin. He presented
his findings in 1937, eight years after Joseph Goldberger's
death.
• Goldberger is remembered as the "unsung hero of American
clinical epidemiology." Although he was nominated five
times for the Nobel Prize, his discovery proved socially
and politically unacceptable, and he made little progress in
gaining support for the treating of pellagra during his lifetime.
• Between 1906 and 1940 more than 3 million Americans were
affected by pellagra with more than 100,000 deaths, yet the
epidemic resolved itself after authorities decided to add
niacin to bread in 1938.
• Pellagra is still found today, especially in third world countries
that depend primarily upon corn for their sustenance.
Refugees and prisoners receiving inadequate food
commonly suffer from it. Alcoholism and drug addiction can
also cause pellagra, as can intestinal disorders. Untreated,
the disease can kill within four or five years.
• Besides meat and eggs, niacin is found in avocados,
dates, tomatoes, leafy vegetables, broccoli, sweet potatoes,
asparagus, nuts, whole grains, and legumes.
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How do seniors feel about sharing their health
information? A poll dealing with health-data privacy
conducted last fall by Truven Health Analytics, in
conjunction with National Public Radio, has the answer.
Researchers wanted to know how people of different
ages felt about having their health-care data shared with
others, such as health plans, employers and even their
own doctors.
Here are some of the results, which varied widely by
age:
● Asked if they had any concerns about health-care
record privacy, it was the middle group (age 35 to 64)
that expressed the most concern. Seniors were the
least concerned of all.
● When it came to being willing to share information with
researchers (if the information was anonymous), 39
percent of seniors said “no.” Ditto sharing credit-card
purchases and social-media information if it would
improve overall health. Seniors said “no” at 84 percent.
(At that point, 98 percent of seniors hadn’t been notified
that their medical records had been compromised.)
Fast-forward to January 2015, and a few things have
changed:
● Seniors who rejected sharing information anonymously
with researchers jumped from 39 percent to 56 percent.
● When it came to sharing information for specific reasons,
such as developing new treatments and reducing costs
of care, seniors were the least likely age group in being
willing to share. The same results were seen when seniors
were asked about anonymously providing information to
researchers, university professors, drug researchers and
consultants: The answer was an overwhelming “no.”
Why the change of opinion? The answer is likely security.
By mid-2014, we’d had nearly 400 security breaches, some
of them huge. By the end of 2014 there were 783 security
breaches, many of which made the news.
When it comes to safeguarding health information,
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What’s going on in Aurora,
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construction in 2004, and it’s still
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When the builder contract was
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facility to a stand-alone hospital,
relocation of the facility, and the
discovery of an underground
spring and a buried swimming
pool.
No one was watching the architect,
who had designed costly additions
like curved walls. Medicalequipment planners weren’t used,
and instead the VA got input from
others with limited experience.
By January 2013, they were still
haggling about trying to redesign
the hospital to fit the actual budget.
At a recent meeting of the U.S.
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guess at this point is that it will be
more than $1 billion -- double the
original estimate and a decade
after the decision was made to
build the facility.
In December, work came to a halt
when the construction company
pulled its workers off the site
after a federal board of contract
appeals said the VA had breached
the contract. Then came word that
the Army Corps of Engineers was
taking over management.
Now, a decade into the project,
the estimated opening will be in
2017 ... maybe.
Aurora isn’t the only location with
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February 12 – 15- William Shakespeare’s classic
drama “Julius Caesar” performed by Theatre@
UAFS in Breedlove Auditorium on UA- Ft Smith
campus as part of the university’s Season of
Entertainment 34 at 7:30 pm. Feb.12-14 & 2:30
pm Feb 15. Tickets are $6, UAFS faculty, staff &
students can attend for free with university ID. The
show is recommended for ages 13 & older due to
violence. Tickets are available at UAFS Box Office
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10-11 am.Everyone will go home with at least one
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Van Buren, Ark 479-474-6045
February 14 - Arkansas Oklahoma Astronomical
Society will hold its monthly meeting at Lake Fort
Smith State Park, audio-visual room, at 7 pm.
Attendance free & open to anyone interested in
astronomy. For more info 479-782-1131 or www.
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February 16 - “The AARP Chapter 5099 meets at
Golden Corral at 1PM. AARP members & nonmembers welcome. For info 479-650-6162.
February 19 - An Arkansas Archeological
Survey employee will present his research on an
archeological site in southwest Arkansas John
Samuelsen will present “The Crenshaw Site:
Explorations of a Changing Caddo Tradition” in
room 211 of the Math-Science Building on the
UAFS campus as part of the monthly Ark-Homa
Chapter meeting 7 pm.. Free & open to the
public. For more info contact Tim Mulvihill, 479788-7812 or [email protected].
February 20 – 21 - Encore performance of
“Delta-v” 7:30 pm in Breedlove Auditorium hosted
by U A- Ft Smith theatre program to raise funds for
a trip to a regional theatre festival. The fantastical
drama, written by UAFS theatre students,
explores the effort people invest in their journey
towards happiness & fulfillment, & the sacrifices
they have to make to get there. Tickets
$15 available in Box Office in SmithPendergraft Campus Center. Contact
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February 23 - Basic Yoga/Everyone
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February 23 - Columbia Artists
Theatricals will perform “Jekyll & Hyde”
A musical adaptation of a classic Gothic
novel as part of UA- Ft Smith’s Season
of Entertainment 34 at 7:30 pm at the
ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center,
55 S 7 Street. Tickets are $40 for firsttier seating & $37 for second-tier. For
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VITAMINS
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(cont. from page 1):
• Later researchers found that vitamin B was
actually a complex compound, and it was
broken down into vitamins B1 through B14.
Again, later studies showed some errors.
Today we have only B1, B2, B6, and B12.
• Today we know there are 13 vitamins: A, B1,
B2, B6, B12, C, D, E, K, niacin, pantothenic
acid, biotin, and folic acid. In 1933 scientists
learned how to manufacture synthetic
vitamins in the laboratory.
ELMER'S DISCOVERY
• In the early 1900s, Elmer McCollum was a
researcher at the University of Wisconsin.
He was trying to discover whether wheat,
oats, or corn was the best feed for cows. His
method was to feed three different groups of
cows the three different feeds and see what
happened. The wheat-fed cows went blind.
The oat-fed cows gave birth to dead calves.
Only the corn-fed cows were healthy.
• Next McCollum switched to rats. He fed his
rats a mixture of protein, carbohydrates,
minerals, and fat. Then he made an
important discovery: when the source of fat
was butter or egg yolk, the rats remained
healthy. But when he switched the fat to
olive oil, the rats died. Obviously there was
something essential in butter and eggs
that was not present in olive oil. After much
laboratory research, the substance was
identified, extracted, and named vitamin A.
with Janet B. Carson
Courtesy of University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service.
I took stems from an angel
wing begonia and placed
them in water and put them in
sunlight on the window sill. As I
hope, white thread-like roots have
now developed. What do I do now?
The obvious answer seems potting
soil, but I am not sure. Please
advise.
Angel wing begonias root
readily, and while many
gardeners like to watch the roots
develop in water, I always prefer to
root them in soil. That being said,
you need to plant yours in soil now.
If there are a lot of roots, don’t cram
them down in the potting soil, but
lightly spread them out and fill in
with fresh soil. Water well but don’t
keep the soil too wet. Angel wing
begonias will grow tall and leggy
if you don’t pinch out the centers
occasionally to get bushiness.
When you do pinch out the center,
you have a new start for another
plant.
A.
Q.
I have an oleander tree (about
6 ft tall now) that I move outside
at the end of March every year in
Fayetteville. I have over-wintered
it in the garage (it has done fine)
and am wondering how I prune this
plant to encourage flowering. The
first year it flowered nicely. It gets
about 4 hours of direct sunlight and
about 4 hours of dappled sunlight. I have never pruned except some
suckers and inside pointing twigs. Does it bloom on new growth or old
growth? This will be the 4th year
and it bloomed a little last year but
less and less every year. Does it
need to be fertilized? Help.
It does bloom on the new
growth, so if you are not
pruning it and it is containerized, it
is probably maintaining a constant
size, and flowering will be somewhat
limited. Also, the more sunlight it
gets, the better it will bloom. Repot
it this spring when you move it out-either putting it in a larger container,
or replacing the old soil with fresh
A.
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and breaking up any root-bound
conditions. Then prune it back by
one third or more. Fertilize monthly,
and try to increase the light if you
can. Hopefully, you will see an
abundance of flowers this summer.
I overwintered several pots
of wax leaf begonias. They
did fine, and bloomed virtually all
winter. Now they are way too tall
and thin, but still blooming. Is there
any way to get them to fill out and
still enjoy the flowers?
I would sacrifice a few blooms
now, in the hope of gaining
more this summer. Clip off the spent
flowers, and prune the plants back
by one third to one half (depending
on how tall they are). Then replant
the part you cut off, by sticking
them down into moist soil. Not only
will your mother plants begin to fill
out, but the tops should root, and
you have doubled the number of
plants. They should be in bloom
before you know it.
Q.
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By Samantha Weaver
۩ It was comedian Bill Maher who made the following sage observation:
"Is [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your
opponent doesn't know a game is going on?"
۩ If you're one of the many Americans who likes a good tailgate party, it's
entirely possible that it's the highlight of game day for you. In a survey
conducted by McCormick Grill Mates during the 2014 football season,
44 percent of respondents said they enjoyed the tailgating more than they
enjoyed the game.
۩ Just like your fingerprint, your tongue print is unique.
۩ Spring is traditionally considered the most popular time for weddings,
but 2014 saw a spike in nuptials in mid-December. More than 13,000
couples in the U.S. tied the knot on Dec. 13, due in large part to the fact
that 12/13/14 fell on a Saturday. Anyone else who would like to marry
on a number-sequential date will have a long wait; it won't happen again
until January 2, 2034.
۩ If you're feeling a bit chilled and can't wait for springtime, consider this:
On the planet Uranus, winter lasts for 21 years.
۩ You might be surprised to learn that Pennsylvania was not named after
William Penn, one of the colony's founders; in fact, King Charles II
granted the land charter to William Penn in repayment of a debt to Penn's
father, Admiral William Penn, and created the name of the sizable land
grant by combining the name of the naval officer with the Latin word
"sylvania," which means "woods." The younger Penn was embarrassed
and feared that people would think he named the colony after himself.
He petitioned the crown to change the name, but the king refused.
******
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• French explorer Jacques Cartier and his crew
were searching for a sea passage across North
America in the 1530s when they spent the
winter on the St. Lawrence River, where they
became icebound. By the middle of February
the crew was suffering with scurvy and were so
weak they could not move from their beds. 25
out of 110 crew members were dead.
• Cartier, who probably had been sneaking food
from a secret cache, remained in good health.
He was reluctant to have much contact with the
local Indians for fear they would attack the boat
after seeing how weak the crew was.
• Still, while Cartier was out on shore one day, he
ran into an Indian named Dom Agaya. Cartier
had met up with this man several days earlier
and had noted that he also was suffering from
the onset of scurvy. Now, however, he was
completely cured.
• Cartier asked him what had cured him, and the
Indian showed him how to cut branches and
needles from a local tree (probably a cedar
tree), boil them in water, and drink the tea.
• At first some of Cartier’s men refused the cure,
but when one or two tried it, they immediately
began feeling better. The rest of the crew soon
rushed to join them, and within eight days they
had consumed an entire tree and in so doing
had cured themselves.
• Still, although Cartier took samples of the tree
with him back to France, the knowledge of the
cure failed to make the rounds. Ten years later,
another French expedition wintering at the
same spot on the St. Lawrence seaway lost 50
of their 200 crew to scurvy.
SCURVY SCALLYWAGS
• In earlier centuries, scurvy was a disease that
struck sailors, prisoners, armies, and besieged
cities. Victims got progressively weaker and
eventually died. (Continued next page)
(continued on page 8)
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VITAMIN A
• The daily allotment of vitamin A is about .0001
ounce. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat soluble and
collect in the body tissues rather than being flushed
out. These are the vitamins that can be overdosed.
Beef liver contains 60,000 IU of vitamin A in four
ounces; polar bear liver, however, is about ten times
richer than that.
VITAMIN D
• Vitamin D acts as a catalyst to produce proteins
that allow minerals to move through the intestinal
membrane and into the cells. Without it, the disease
called rickets causes the bones to soften and bend.
• The misperception persists that vitamin D is present
in sunlight. Actually, vitamin D cannot be formed
unless it is activated by ultraviolet light. Therefore,
sunlight does not contain vitamin D; it only activates
it. Cats and dogs, when they lick their fur, ingest
body fat that has been irradiated on their fur. This
serves as a source of vitamin D.
• One school of thought holds that black skin evolved
as protection against sunburn and skin cancer.
However, other scientists feel that white skin
evolved as a measure to allow enough ultraviolet
light to pass through the skin in cold climates where
people wear heavy clothing and their exposure to
sunlight is limited.
VITAMIN E
• Vitamin E is necessary for reproduction. Many
people have concluded that if a little vitamin E
is necessary to reproduce, then a lot of vitamin E
should really make you a Casanova. But vitamin E's
role in reproduction is merely to prevent miscarriage
and has nothing to do with sex or conception.
VITAMIN K
• Vitamin K comes in cabbage, cauliflower, spinach
and pork liver, but the vitamin is also synthesized in
the intestinal tract by bacteria, no matter what you
eat. Vitamin K is necessary for the liver to synthesize
clotting elements that circulate in the blood. Too
much vitamin K can damage the liver. Taking oral
antibiotics can kill the intestinal bacteria that
synthesize vitamin K.
VITAMIN B
• Vitamin B12 is necessary for the formation of red
corpuscles in the blood, for normal growth, and for
maintenance of healthy nerve cells. You only need
.00000014 ounce of vitamin B12 each day, but a lack
of that tiny amount can be fatal. It is impossible to
get B12 on a strict vegetarian diet.
• Scientists wondered why Hindus, who are
strict vegetarians, never suffered from vitamin
deficiencies while living in India, but would come
down with B12 deficiencies if they emigrated
to Britain. It was found that their diet in India
inadvertently contained insect parts that became
mixed in with the food. But in Britain, where
food control laws were stricter, there were fewer
microscopic insect fragments in the food. Insects are
rich in vitamins, including B12.
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۩ On Feb. 19, 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus is born in
Torun, Poland, on the Vistula River. Revered as the
father of modern astronomy, Copernicus was the
first European scientist to propose that Earth and
other planets revolve around the sun.
۩ On Feb. 22, 1819, Spanish minister Do Luis de
Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy
Adams sign the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which
Spain agrees to cede the remainder of its old
province of Florida to the United States. The Treaty
put Florida into U.S. hands at no cost beyond the
U.S. assumption of $5 million in claims by U.S.
citizens against Spain.
۩ On Feb. 21, 1926, glamorous Swedish actress
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Torrent.” Unlike many of her contemporaries, the
Nordic beauty successfully made the transition to
sound after becoming a star during the silent film
era.
۩ On Feb. 18, 1964, the United States cuts off
military assistance to Britain, France and
Yugoslavia in retaliation for their continuing trade
with communist Cuba. The action was chiefly
symbolic, but represented the continued U.S. effort
to destabilize the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro.
۩ On Feb. 20, 1974, Reg Murphy, an editor of The
Atlanta Constitution, is kidnapped. Kidnapper
William Williams drove Murphy around the city,
stopping to phone in ransom demands to the
newspaper. Managing editor G. James Minter
delivered the money to Williams, and Murphy
was released. After being caught, Williams was
sentenced to 40 years for kidnapping and extortion.
۩ On Feb. 16, 1984, Bill Johnson becomes the first
American man to win an Olympic gold medal
in downhill skiing, a sport long dominated by
European athletes. Johnson quickly became a
national hero, though his fame was short-lived and
he never again competed in the Olympics.
۩ On Feb. 17, 1996, in the final game of a six-game
match, world chess champion Garry Kasparov
triumphs over Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing
computer, and wins the match, 4-2. However, Deep
Blue would go on to defeat Kasparov in a rematch
the following year
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DEAR PAW'S CORNER: My poodle mix, “Shep,” loves to
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Make sure, of course, that when you’re not in the kitchen, nothing
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First things first: Make it clear to Shep that he can’t come into
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When you’re in the kitchen cooking or cleaning, leave Shep
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Both you and your husband need to be on the same page. Shep
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SCURVY (cont. from page 5)
• In 1737 an Austrian doctor named Kramer
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but the officers (who ate better food) never did.
He was the first person to make the connection
between diet and disease.
• Soon after, a Scottish doctor named Lind
proved that citrus fruits would prevent scurvy.
• Captain Cook was so impressed that he took
limes on his round-the-world voyage, and lost
only one sailor to the disease. However, the
British army remained unconvinced and didn’t
start following the advice for another 40 years.
• In 1794 the British Admiralty finally decided
to try citrus as a preventative for scurvy. They
sent an English squadron out with a full supply
of lemons. When the ships touched port at
Madras 23 weeks later, only one crewman had
come down with scurvy— and he had traded
his daily lemon juice ration for another sailor’s
rum.
• After it was discovered that citrus fruits could
cure scurvy, every Spanish sailor bound for
the Americas was supplied with 100 seeds
or young seedlings to be planted in the new
land. Today’s Florida groves began with trees
planted in 1513 by Ponce de Leon. By 1800
scurvy was wiped out.
• Because lemons were commonly called limes,
English seaman eventually became known as
“limeys.”
• Without vitamin C, the body cannot synthesize
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VITAMINS
February 6, 2015
of Western Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma
(Cont. From Page 6)
• Beriberi was a perplexing disease, causing fatigue, then death. In 1894
Christiaan Eijkman began to study it. Certain it was caused by a bacteria
or virus, he tried unsuccessfully to infect chickens. One group of chickens
received injections of the beriberi bacteria, and another group did not.
Suddenly, both groups came down with beriberi. Just as suddenly, both
groups recovered. He was mystified.
• He spoke with the man who fed them. Back then, brown rice was
undesirable, and white rice (which has the hull and the germ polished
off ) was desirable. Chickens were normally fed undesirable brown rice.
But when the supply of brown rice ran out, the chickens received white
rice, and they got sick. When more brown rice arrived, they recovered.
Eijkman concluded that white rice contains a poison which brown rice
neutralizes, not realizing that brown rice contains vitamin B1 (also called
thiamine) which wasn't isolated and named until 1926.
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