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IMMUNE POWER DIET: WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN HURT YOU
Why is this quiz necessary? Don't you probably already have all the vitamins you need? You may think that because you eat relatively well, or take multiple vitamins, that your vitamin bank accounts are plenty full. You couldn't be more wrong.
Every few years the Department of Health and Human Services and the U. S. Department of Agriculture survey the nutrition of average, basically healthy, Americans. Each time, these studies show that millions of us are suffering from alarming vitamin shortages. The combined results of the most recent studies show that Americans lack vitamin A and Ñ; Â vitamins thiamine, pyridoxine, and riboflavin, as well as calcium, iron, and magnesium.
FROM THE LABORATORY . . .
Researchers at MIT who tested 120 patients selected at random from those admitted to hospitals across the country found that only 12 percent showed proper levels of all vitamins. Eighty-eight percent had at least one serious deficiency, and 59 percent were short of at least two critical nutrients. In the MIT researchers' own words:
These studies… lead to the inescapable conclusion that a single nutrient deficiency can result in profound impairment of specific immunologic processes—a concept that has not yet received widespread attention or general acceptance. This inattention may be having important clinical results, since the immunologic deficiencies may significantly alter disease course and/or therapeutic response.
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