--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Low nutrients lead to low IQs in developing nations <snippage> > > UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The brainpower of entire > nations has diminished > because of a shortage of the right vitamins, and > slipping nutrients into > people's food seems to be the only solution, a new > U.N. survey says.
<<http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/03/24/brain.food.ap/index.html>> "...Getting vitamins to people other ways just doesn't work, researchers said. In the United States, most people ignored government pleas to take more folic acid, a nutrient found in nuts - until the government started putting it in flour in 1998. The result: cases of spina bifida and anencephaly, two serious birth defects, dropped by at least 20 percent... "...Putting more nutrients into the food has a measurable economic effect, Mannar said. He cited an Indian study that showed a 20 percent increase in production among tea leaf pickers after iron was added to their diets..." I hadn't looked at it as such, but one could consider this a form of gov't. nannyism; since I support the addition of iodine to salt and folate in bread/cereals, I guess I _am_ a goat, at least as far as the kids are concerned... Debbi who is nevertheless not a Capricorn __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
