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Eight Decades of Scurvy. The Case History of a Misleading Dietary Hypothesis.
Irwin Stone Source: ORTHOMOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY, VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2, 1979, Pp. 58-62 This paper will discuss the history of scurvy in this country over the past eight decades and try to explain how a potentially-fatal and insidious genetic disease of such wide incidence in our population could become an unrecognized, phantom disease, to which most present day doctors pay little or no attention and are
Winds of Change
A. Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. Source: Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Vol. 2, No. 4, 1987 Nutritional dogma has blocked the use of nutrients as supplements for nearly forty years. The main tenets of this dogma are simple. They are based on what was known about nutrition and nutrient supplements before foods were so devitalized that it did not matter. When only whole, natural foods were available and