European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Super vitamins should they be regulated As drugs by William Kronholm associated press Ore than 10 years allot being battered on the Issue a food and drug administration is cautiously looking again at the question of whether super vitamins should to regulated As drugs. An Fra Olf Iclal said the Agency is encouraging doctors 1o record their patients Vitamin use and to report overdoses and Side effects on the forms they use f report dangerous reactions to drugs. We re looking for Clear documentation of lox icily associated with Vitamin and Mineral use to help us with the regulatory said or. Allan Forbes the Fra s nutrition and loot sciences director. We urge physicians across the United states to join with us in mis important a Trade group representing Vitamin manufacturers Laler said the group would be strongly supportive of efforts to gather More information about 1he effect of diet supplements saying the figures would bolster their position in they Are objectively Analysed but . Cordoro Preti Donl of the Council for responsible nutrition. Added he eared Tho Fra was Oul to prove a predetermined to noted that the Call Lor More information was accompanied by disclaimers that not enough was known about Long term effects to take action. In the Early 1970s, the Fra issued regulations Banning the non prescription Sale of super potent Vitamin a and 0 products because of a potential health risk. The Fra also proposed thai vitamins and minerals containing More than 150 percent of the recommended Dally allowance Rda for the substance involved be regulated As drugs. The Fra was Creed to Back Olf by thousands of complaints from the Public 15 lawsuits and a special provision passed by Congress. The congressional order required vitamins to be treated As foods rather than drugs unless the Agency can prove they Are unsafe. Tho Dii Linclon a critical. Drugs Are tested for safety and effectiveness before Sale is allowed foods Are regulated Only for purity. The congressional order is still in effect. But Forbes noted the results of the physician reports could be enough to satisfy the requirement for proof. The new look Al vitamins was not initiated by Fra. The Agency instead joined an Effort by a group of scientists and dietitians who said they were concerned about the growing trend of people taking Mega doses of certain vitamins in Hopes of preventing or treating illness. Erma Bombeck Don t you just love the bulletins from the fashion world season waists Are Backi shoulders Are Ini eyes Are important the Glrst thing i do is to look and see if i still have one or two and wha condition ii or they is in. If it needs work. I see How i can disguise it. Iii does to i fall on my Knees. The other Day a Friend of mine shoved a headline at me that read Bellybutton returns from Washlon you would have Moughal in was Marcos returning to the Philippines. Who cares i said Don snap Al me she said blame Cher and Madonna and Jim Mcmahon of the Chicago bears. They re the ones who made Nav Falls trendy. Farther Down in the Story someone was quoted As saying that Baring the Navel was not for everyone. Iii we in the scientific Community Ore concerned Wilh the increasing notion that supplements can be used to prevent serious diseases such As cancer and osteoporosis said or. David Heber. Chief of clinical nutrition at the University of California Al los Angeles school of Medicine. American should get of Weir nutrients from food instead of pills Heber said. Large supplement doses of single nutrients won t prevent disease bul instead will upset absorption of other the concern is not for the person taking a Dally Mulli Vitamin Tablet that provides recommended Dally allowances nor Tor people who May have a legitimate need for Vitamin supplements such As pregnant women and the elderly. Instead Heber said the scientist Are concerned about Normal people taking huge quantities of a single Vlamin or Mineral in Hopes in will prevent some disease of cure some condition. Or. Victor Herbert of mount Sinai school of Medicine in new York said that Beta carotene a precursor to Vitamin a is touted by some As a cancer preventive yet he said the substance is so prevalent in the american diet it s a waste of me to and overdoses of Vitamin a carry Signi Lical risks he said liver damage loss of hair increased brain and spinal fluid pressure blurred vision and More Mega Dott of Vitamin c Are used by Many to prevent or cure colds. But while Many people can tolerate huge doses the scientists said others Sutler irom reduced Copper and Iron absorption development of kidney stones and other complications. In same animal tests they said huge doses of Vitamin c have made tutors grow larger. Similarly the scientists said overdoses of Vitamin Dean cause kidney damage end failure overdoses of Vitamin e can suppress the thyroid gland overdoses of magnesium can cause breathing difficulty lethargy and slurred speech and overdoses of Zinc can interfere Wilh the body s absorption of Calcium Iron Copper and selenium. The comments came at a news conference that ended a weekend seminar for doctors and dietitians on the problem. The seminar was organized by the National Dairy Board. Go one step truth of and say anyone Over the age of 16 months should never Bare their navels. I remember a Lew years ago out of the Clear Blue sky designers came out Wilh mini skirts. You can t Spring something like that on women in a Day. They need Lime to weave those sags into Muscles and hike those Saddle bags up around the Waist. By the time most women had gotten their legs in shape the Long skirt came Back and it did t matter anymore. Another time i saw a Washlon flair that said this year s trend no bust easy for them to say. Trust me when i Tell you you cannot make a Deml Lasse cup out of an Industrial strength Coffee Mug in one season. To show you what wimps we Are we let them stuff our feel alternately Between pointed and Square toes. When we know in our hearts that our toes Ere angled and we will live in severe pain. I Don t pretend to know How allot these trends evolve but there is probably a Large room in new York where designers sit around and speculate. Lei s see last year we gave women the big shirt that covered every Lump and bulge in their bodies from the neck Down. We gave them elastic skirt bands and Long unstructured jackets that you could use to Slipcover Massachusetts. There s no double in my mind they re All gone to Greet says one of them excitedly. We Vegol them right where we want them. Now we bring Back the Hal stomach arms the size of pencils and necks 24-lncheslong." and to Cap ii Alloh Well add a Bustle to whal they be already i m telling you i be succumbed to my last fashion bulletin. I was Hal on my Back the other night for three hours hoping to get a glimpse of my Navel. I think i saw it. It was nothing to build a wardrobe around. Cd 1h6, vol Arto Tik t1m san ill wednesday june 4, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 17
