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HETITb?
BY RUTH ADAMS KFRA.
VITAMIN E,
WONDER
WORKER OF
THE '70's?
by Ruth Adams
and
Frank Murray
Larchmont Press
NEW YORK
Second Printing,
January 1972.
Foreword 5
Introduction 11
Vitamin E in the Hands
of Creative Physicians 17
Once Again Vitamin E
Proves its Worth and Versatility 33
Some Theories on Why We Grovir Old 37
The Power of Vitamin E 43
Vitamin E and a Rare Disease 47
Vitamin E Treats a Painful
Circulatory Condition Successfully 52
An Important Finding in
Relation to Vitamin E 59
Vitamin A and E Protect Lungs
Against Air Pollution 63
More Uses of Vitamin E 68
Too Little Vitamin E for Our Babies? 75
Two Important Books on Vitamin E 80
What's Important Is Preventing
a Heart Attack 87
Are You Getting Enough Vitamin E? 104
How Much Vitamin E Do You Need? 115
What Is Vitamin E? 125
Bibliography 126
Index 127
3
Foreword
People deserve to know about vitamin E but
they have great difficulty in learning about it
from doctors of medicine, v^ho, in their turn,
have very Httle acquaintance vidth it at first
hand. For at least 36 years now we have done
our best, by personal care, by lectures, by dis-
plays of photographs of treated cases, and by
scientific articles in medical journals to increase
general on the subject and to
information
persuade physicians to use it. These efforts we
will continue, of course, but time nms out and
doctors are stubborn. We are glad to see an-
other direct approach made to the pubUc.
There is no reason why people should suffer im-
necessarily while doctors argue. Mercy and
ethics demand something better.
Why has it been so persuade the
difficult to
medical profession of the virtues of alpha
tocopherol? There are many reasons, some ra-
tional, some absurd. Vitamin E was first called
an anti-sterility vitamin because it prevented
the re-absorption of embryos in pregnant rats.
This is a misuse of the term '*steriHty," of
course. Had other species been used as test ob-
jects, it would have been called the anti-
dystrophy vitamin or the anti-encephalomalacia
vitamin. But rats were the animals chosen for
Vitamin E
study and hence, it has always seemed
its initial
10
Introduction
For centuries babies in many countries of the
world— but especially northern countries-
suffered from a mysterious disease which de-
formed and crippled their bones. Doctors did
not even recognize it as a disease which could
possibly be cured or prevented until 1645, when
an Oxford physician wrote a description of it,
caUing it "rickets." From that time until the
middle of the 1920's (300 years!), the cause of
this disease was a complete mystery.
Some physicians thought that rickets resulted
from an infection, as tuberculosis does. Many
very knowledgeable scientists thought this xmtil
well into the 20th century. Others thought that
the cure might He in sunlight, good food and
exercise. Still others prohibited sunUght and
insisted that babies be wrapped tightly in
swaddling clothes. This was necessary, they
said, to straighten their twisted legs by con-
fining them to tight bandages.
Some doctors gave vegetable oils, others
prescribed certain cereals. Some infants ap-
peared to avoid rickets if they had large
amounts of fresh butter every day. In some
northern countries, cod hver oil was given to
babies as a certain preventive of rickets. What
was it in the oil that brought about the cure?
11
)
Vitamin E
No one knew. Finally, about 1924, a doctor
announced that cod liver oil contains a vitamin
which cures and prevents rickets. This is vita-
min D. (Recently, a researcher has suggested
that vitamin D is all, but a
not a vitamin at
hormone. We get the vitamin from
fish Hvers,
he says, because the fish manufactures it for
its own use, as they do other hormones 1
16
CHAFFER 1
Vitamin E in the
Hands of Creative
Physicians
Of all of the substances in the medical re-
searcher's pharmacopoeia, perhaps the most
maligned, neglected and ignored is vitamin E.
In spite of this apparent ostracism in the United
States, however, some of the world's leading
medical authorities are using alpha tocopherol
—more commonly known as vitamin E—to suc-
cessfully treat and cure a host of mankind's
most notorious scoiuges.
For those medical researchers who are at
work trying to treat and prevent heart attacks—
our No. 1 killer— and to help many more thou-
sands who are dying of related circulatory dis-
orders, vitamin E is playing a major role. And
for many athletes, vitamin E (in the form of
wheat germ oil, specially formulated oils for
stamina and endurance, vitamin E capsules
and perles etc.) has long been as indispensable
as cahsthenics.
"There are over 570,000 deaths from heart
attacks each year," says a pubUcation of the
American Heart Association, "many thousands
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Vitamin E
of them among people in the prime of life—
and growing indications that heart disease may
be a disease of prosperity."
In scientific minds, vitamin E may be related
and reproduction, said an article in
to fertility
Medical World News for April 18, 1969. But a
famous ball player, Bobby Bolin of the San
Francisco Giants, credits the vitamin with keep-
ing his pitching arm in condition. He developed
a sore shoulder in 1966, resulting in a poor
pitching season for two years. He began to take
vitamin E. The article said that he expected to
be a "regular starter" at the beginning of the
1969 season, and that vitamin E was responsible
for the good news.
It isn t surprising that many athletes have
discovered the benefits of taking Vitamin E reg-
ularly. The vitamin is in short supply in most
of our diets. Vitamin E is an essential part of
the whole circulatory mechanism of the body,
since our use of oxygen. When you
it affects
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CHAPTER 2
Once Again
Vitamin Proves E
its Worth and
Versatility
Serendipity the word used by scientists to
is
36
CHAPTER 3
Some Theories
on Why We
Grow Old
The search for the Fountain of Youth remains
as illusive today as when Ponce de Leon and
his followers set out for it on March 3, 1512.
Although cosmetology in the 20th Century is a
highly refined science, there is considerable evi-
dence that the youthful look that most of us
admire comes from internal, rather than ex-
ternal, sources. Of coinrse, a youthful appear-
ance is also enhanced if you are a pampered
movie star, if you are wealthy enough to afford
the many luxuries that go with looking beauti-
ful, if you are in an occupation that allows you
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CHAPTER 4
The Power of
Vitamin E
Although vitamin E was discovered in 1922,
itremains virtually a step-child, insofar as treat-
ing and preventing various disorders is con-
cerned. A symposium on vitamin E was held in
September 1970 in Hakone, Japan, where many
leading scientists discussed the value of this
vitamin. As far as we can determine, the sym-
posium was ignored by the American scientific
community, since we can find no mention of it
in the leading medical journals.
In Dr. Evan Shute's The Summary in Canada,
of course, there is a full accoimt of the Japanese
conclave. Other symposiums have been held
over the years on vitamin E (1939 in London,
1949 in New York, 1955 in Venice). At the
latter meeting, scientists talked about the versa-
tility of vitamin E in dealing v^ith eye disorders,
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CHAPTER 5
Vitamin E and
A Rare Disease
In 1955, Dr. Evan Shute presented at a meeting
of the British Medical Association and the
Canadian Medical Association an exhibit of
colored pictures of Shute patients who had
been treated successfully with vitamin E. He
proposed that the photos be shown at an
American Medical Association convention. Said
Dr. Shute, *1 told the people I talked to there
that if I was right the American profession
should be allowed to see what we had done. If
we were wrong, the quickest way to destroy us
was to put our work up before the medical
profession and let it be criticized."
Dr. Shute's exhibitwas rejected on the
groimds that it was "embarrassing" and ''there
was no room for it." "I mentioned in reply that
I had been in the Convention Hall in Atiantic
City; after all the exhibits were set up, there
would still be room for two freight trains
there," Dr. Shute said. "The refusal held and
was repeated the following year. We never
again will try for an exhibit at an American
Medical meeting."
This is a tragedy for American medicine,
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Vitamin E
since many patients might be helped by harm-
less vitamin E, as opposed to many harmful
drugs. Its use is apparently almost unlimited.
We reminded of the case of Epidermolysis
are
bullosa that was written up in the June 6, 1964
issue of the Canadian Medical Journal, This
rather rare, chronic skin disease is usually
hereditary and involves bHsters which may be-
come infected and leave scars when they heal.
The entire surface of the victim's body may be
affected, including the mouth, throat and eyes.
There is no known treatment, except for ban-
daging the skin and keeping the bHsters from
becoming infected.
In 1961, a 14-year-old boy was brought to a
Canadian hospital from a home for incurable
children, where he had been for six years. This
child was bom with the bHster disease. Approx-
imately ten hours of nursing care a day were
required to care for him, including a half -hour
bath twice daily, before the bandages on his
arms and legs were removed.
Dr. H. D. Wilson, writing in the Canadian
medical journal, stated: "The condition of his
skin, when the dressings were removed, can
scarcely be described. It is difficult to imagine
a more unpleasant sight, compounded of bHsters
of aU sizes, scabs, scars and bloody purulent
discharge." The unfortunate child had suffered
with this condition for 14 years. From head to
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CHAPTER 6
Vitamin E Treats
A Painful
Circulatory
Condition
Successfully
If vitamin E is so eflFective, why you may ask,
is itnot used by more physicians and research-
ers? Dr. Evan Shute has a possible explanation,
"One of the diJBBculties is that vitamin E is
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CHAPTER 7
An
Important
Finding in Relation
to Vitamin E
In 1932, a Danish veterinarian used vitamin E
for *Tiabitual abortion" in animals. At that time
the only vitamin E available was wheat germ
oil,with several International Units per dram,
and a synthetic vitamin E tablet with 10 Units.
At the 1939 conference on vitamin E in Lon-
don, no one had a very clear idea as to just
what they should do with this new vitamin, and
most of the papers read then had to do with
obstetrics. Vitamin E's long-standing association
with reproduction is imderstandable, since to-
copherol is a Greek word meaning "childbirth."
Two researchers at the University of Cali-
fornia reported an important finding in this
area ia the March 1, 1968 issue of Science,
They studied the process of reproduction in
rats which had been deprived of vitamin E, al-
though the rest of their diet was complete in
every nutrient. They uncovered a very sig-
nificant diEerence in the animals which got
enough vitamin E and those which did not.
It is well known that sterility is the first in-
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Vitamin E
dication of vitamin E deficiency in animals. Up
to now, no one could even speculate why lack
of vitamin E brought sterility. The two Cali-
fornia scientists believe that the abihty of
vitamin E to protect substances from the action
of oxygen may be necessary every time a cell
divides.And, of course, cell division is the basis
for reproduction and the growth of every new
living thing.
Studying laboratory animals made deficient
in vitamin E, the scientists found that their cells
contained a given number of a certain particle
in each cell that is not present in quantity when
the cell is dividing normally. Animals which
were getting plenty of vitamin E has fewer of
these particles. They also found that animals
breathing the regular air of the laboratory had
a normal appearance, whereas the cells of those
breathing pure oxygen looked more like the
cells of animals which did not get enough
vitamin E— another indication that too much
oxygen was in some way damaging the process
of cell division.
This discovery could be one of the most
important nutritional discoveries in a long
time. To those of us who are not scientists, it
group.
Vitamin E is regarded by many researchers
as the anti-sterility vitamin. This research adds
strength to the theory that vitamin E is foremost
among certain nutritional substances improv-
ing chances for successful pregnancies in mam-
mals, including humans. Dr. SoderwaU believes
that vitamin E's chief beneficial action may be
the toughening of blood cell membranes. The
vitamin appears to maintain red blood cells in
a healthy state.
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CHAPTER 8
Vitamin A and E
Protect Lungs
Against
Air Pollution
**ViTAMiNS APPEAR TO play a much more vital
role in safeguarding lungs from the ravages of
air pollution than has been generally realized,"
says an article in Chemical and Engineering
News for June 29, 1970. At a symposium on
pollution and lung biochemistry at the Battelle-
Northwest Institute, a scientist from the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology told of his
experiments with rats in which he found that
the two fat-soluble vitamins—A and E—play
an important role in protecting lung tissues
from harm that may be done by two compon-
ents of air pollution—ozone and nitrogen
dioxide.
These two pollutants are among the most
destructive compounds we have loosed on city
dwellers from industrial pollution and the ex-
haust from automobiles that jam our city streets.
Certain fatty substances in the lungs are broken
down by the pollutants releasing other sub-
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Vitamin E
stances that are highly dangerous. Vitamin E
appears to "quench" these substances, rendering
them harmless.
Scientists from Battelle-Northwest have been
conducting a series of nutrition experiments in
which they fed rats a specially prepared diet
that was high in polyunsaturates— the fatty sub-
stance which is attacked by the air pollutants.
Some of the animals got food that contained no
vitamin E. Others ate the same diet, supple-
mented with vitamin E.
The were then exposed to a stream of
rats
air containing one part per million of ozone.
They soon showed signs of severe stress in
breathing, and died. Those which were getting
the vitamin E hved twice as long in the ozone
polluted atmosphere. In other experiments, re-
searchers autopsied the rats after they had been
exposed to nitrogen dioxide. The animals that
had eaten the diet deficient in vitamin E had
far less of the polyunsaturates in their lungs
than the rats which had plenty of vitamin E.
Apparently, the vitamin had preserved the val-
uable polyunsaturates and prevented their de-
struction.
Dr. Daniel B. Menzel, who heads the Battelle
nutrition and food technology section, believes
that vitamin E might perform still another bene-
ficial function in safeguarding vitamin A from
being destroyed by the air pollutants. "This in
itself would be an important function," says the
article, "because it is now becoming increasingly
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Vitamin A and E — Am Pollution
evident that vitamin A is crucial for the healthy
metabohsm and growth of epithelial cells."
These are the skin and linings of the
cells in
body cavities like the lungs.
At M.I.T., have been experimenting
scientists
v^ith vitamin A, giving it to rats, then examin-
ing their lung cells. The rats which had plenty
of vitamin A
showed a healthy condition of the
lungs. Those which had a deficiency showed
cells that were thick, scaly and hard, instead of
being soft and covered with healthful mucus.
After identifying a certain compound present
in the healthy lungs and absent in the deficient
ones, theyfound furthermore, that when they
gave supplements of vitamin A to the deficient
rats, this beneficial compound was formed in
their lungs within 18 hours, even though they
had been eating a deficient diet for a long time.
The researchers went on to say that we know
now that vitamin A can prevent the formation
of cells that later turn into cancer cells. They
don t know exactly how the vitamin does this,
but they are investigating the process. And now
they are wondering whether massive doses of
vitamin A may be able to reverse the growth
of certain kinds of cancers. They are working
with Dr. Umberto the National Can-
Saffioti of
cer Institute, who
has aheady proved that vita-
min A, given orally to hamsters, can completely
prevent the cancers that would normally appear
when the animals are exposed to certain cancer-
causing substances.
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Vitamin E •
More Uses of
Vitamin E
Vitamin E not the only vitamin that has had
is
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CHAPTER 10
79
CHAPTER 11
Two Important
Books on
Vitamin E
Since the Shute Brothers are world-famous
champions of vitamin E, it was welcome news
that Dr. Wilfrid E. Shute was wilting a book
especially deahng with circulatory ailments and
heart conditions. Titled "Vitamin E for Ailing
and Healthy Hearts," the 208-page book was
published in 1970 by Pyramid House, 444 Mad-
ison Ave., New York City. Its co-author is
Harald J. Taub.
In the introduction to the book. Dr. Shute
tells us that heart attack death was all but im-
objection to vitamin E
therapy exists, doctors
use it freely, whereas in the U.S., the official
disapproval of and/ or overwhelming ignorance
of the usefulness of vitamin E creates doubt in
the minds of even very honest and unpreju-
diced medical men.
Mr. Bailey and his pubhshers have been very
careful to state on the book jacket that they
have no financial interest in any firm which
manufactures or sells vitamin E and that the
book is not to be used in connection with the
sale of. any vitamin E products. Such a state-
ment is essential these days so that the Food
and Drug Administration cannot seize the
book as "labeling."
We cannot recommend Mr. Bailey's book
too highly. It is easy to read and to understand.
It is crammed with facts about the effectiveness
of vitamin E against a number of serious dis-
orders. And it is well documented.
Of course, the classic book on vitamin E and
heart health is that published by The Shute
Institute. It is listed in our bibliography.
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CHAPTER 12
What's Important
Is Preventing
A Heart Attack
Although doctors can successfully treat many
heart attack victims, an estimated 250,000
American men and women die of heart attacks
before they arrive in hospital emergency rooms.
This information was reported in The New York
Times on Oct. 24, 1970, and was, in turn, com-
mented on in an editorial iu the Journal of the
American Medical Association.
Heart attack symptoms can be diverse, the
however, they vary in
article reports. Generally,
intensity and location from mild chest dis-
comfort to severe, crushing pain in the chest,
jaw, shoulder, arm or hand. Nausea or vomiting
and sweatiDg can also occur.
The JAMA article noted that Public Health
Service epidemiologists have shown that in 20%
of fatal heart attack cases studied in Framing-
ham, Mass., "sudden death was the first indica-
tion of heart disease," and that doctors know
that 60% of the deaths from heart attacks occur
within one hour of the onset of symptoms and
85% occur within 24 horns. What kills most of
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Vitamin E
tliese heart attack victims, the article goes on,
are irregularities of the heart rhythm. An ir-
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Vitamin E
tating, fight when we are angered. As Dr. Hans
Kraus of New York put it, "Fight and flight
reflexes are incessantlybeing triggered in our
overstimulated lives but they can rarely be
completed in their musculo-motor aspects," that
is, in physical activity.
2. Most of the scientists reported that a diet
high in cholesterol plus all the stresses of mod-
ern life increased the risk of heart attacks. So
the recommendations generally were for a re-
duction in the amount of animal fat that should
be eaten. There was, however, one report find-
ing no heart disease whatsoever in 200 nomadic
tribesmen of Somaliland who hve almost ex-
clusivelyon camel's milk, thus consuming an
enormous amount of animal fat every day. But
these people had no civilized worries and led
extremely active lives physically.
Other personal habits come in for plenty
3.
brinogen.
All of these thingsmust be continued for life,
just as diabetics must take medication and ob-
serve special diets for life. Said Dr. Misirlioglu,
the whole process involving this blood sub-
stance goes on throughout life so, therefore,
any steps to control it must also go on through-
out life. Since the recommendations he makes
are so easy and so simple to follow, there seems
to be no reason not to follow them.
We would suggest in addition other things
which will probably help: Brewer's yeast and
wheat germ as supplements contain lots of
other B vitamins, which also help in controlling
the body's use of fatty substances. And we
would suggest cutting down sharply on the use
of sugar and foods that contain it, since these
make heavy demands on the body's supply of
B vitamins.
All of these suggestions can go a long way in
possibly preventing a heart attack. If you do
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Preventing A Heart Attack
suffer from the symptoms of a heart attack,
however, by all means report to yom* doctor im-
mediately. Medical research has fomid effective
treatments for many of the various heart
rhythm abnormahties, providing the victim re-
ceives medical aid in time.
Said the Times article quoted at the begin-
ning of this chapter, "Such treatment with
drugs and electric shocks in coronary care imits
is said to have reduced by haff ihe hospital
mortahty rate for patients with heart attacks.
"As a result," the article said, "doctors in
some conmaunities are experimenting with mo-
bile coronary care units; that is, trucks or am-
bulances staffed with doctors and trained as-
sistants and equipped with electrocardiograms,
drugs and defibrillators, to bring intensive
medical care to the victim wherever he suffers
his heart attack."
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CHAPTER 13
113
Vitamin E
Beef 0.63
Liver 1.62
Haddock 1.20
Baked potato 0.05
Baked beans 1.16
Fresh peas 1.73
Whole wheat bread,
4 slices 2.2
Oatmeal 3.23
Com oil margarine,
1 tablespoon 2.62
Soy or cottonseed margarine,
1 tablespoon 2.60
Mayonnaise,
1 tablespoon 3.16
Wheat germ, Vz cup 11.0
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CHAPTER 14
How Much
Vitamin E
Do You Need?
Until 1968 the oflScial position on vitamin E-
at least in the United States-was that no one
knew how much of it might be needed every
day by a healthy adult. "It is difficult to make
any recommendations other than that the to-
copherol (vitamin E) requirement will vary
between 10 and 30 milligrams a day for adults
. . . The estimated average daily adult con-
sumption of vitamin E has been calculated to
be about 14 milligrams," said official pubUca-
tions on Recommended Daily Allowances
of
vitamins and minerals.
In the 1968 revision of this book, the recom-
mended daily allowance of vitamin E for adults
was set at 30 milligrams for men, 25 for women.
The booklet made several ambiguous state-
ments in regard to the amount of the vitamin
the average individual may actually be
getting.
"Estimates of vitamin E content of diets repre-
sentative of foods available for daily consump-
tion show wide variation-from about
2 to 66
International Units (mihigrams) ... The ap-
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Vitamin E
parent absence of vitamin E deficiency in the
general population suggests that the amount
of vitamin E in foods is adequate."
What does a statement hke this mean? Some
of us are getting only 2 milligrams of the vita-
min when be getting 30, but it's all
v^e should
right, since we don't show any signs of defi-
ciency! But how do these experts know that we
have no such symptoms without examining
each of us individually? Even when oflBcial
nutrition surveys are made, the results are dis-
putable. For example, The New York Times for
Oct. 14, 1970, discussed the findings of a
Federal study on malnutrition in New York
City. Except for a vitamin A deficiency among
low-income children, preliminary data from the
survey of 2,000 people indicated that only
about 10% of those tested had any nutritional
deficiencies. Results were based solely on lab-
oratory test, and clinical examinations that
doctors had made on each person were not
considered. According to Dr. Roger G. New-
man, a City Health Department official who
supervised the survey, there are disputes
among doctors and researchers over whether
or not the tests now used to fix nutrient levels
are accurate. Dr. Newman also said that, be-
cause of the limited research techniques, "we
are not in a position to answer the question
originally posed by Congress concerning the
extent of malnutrition and health-related prob-
lems in the target population."
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How Much Vitamin E Do You Need?
When we speak of the term "average daily
consumption" of a given vitamin or mineral,
we individuals are not taken into accoimt
Averages are made up of figures both above
and below a given level. If the "average" Ameri-
can is getting 14 milhgrams of vitamin E a day,
this means that millions of Americans are prob-
ably getting much less than this. However, until
now, oflBcialdom has gone on the assumption
that the average American is all they are con-
cerned with and, since this mythical person is
getting 14 milhgrams of vitamin E a day, there
is no need for him to get any additional vitamin
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What Is
Vitamin E?
Vitamin E is a fat-soluble phenol which
has a close similarity to chlorophyll. It is
also known as "tocopherol" because of
its apparent aid in reproduction. This
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Bibliography
Bailey, Herbert, Vitamin E, Your Key to a
Healthy Hearty ARCO Books, New York City,
1964.
Bailey, Herbert,The Vitamin Pioneers, Ro-
dale Press, Emmaus, Pa. 1968.
Shute, Evan and Wilfrid, Alpha Tocopherol
(Vitamin E) in Cardiovascular Disease, Ryerson
Press, Toronto, Canada, 1954.
Shute Institute for Clinical and Laboratory
Medicine, The Summary, sl periodical of ab-
stracts of relevant medical literature with
meaningful comments by Dr. Evan Shute. Pub-
lished by The Shute Foimdation for Medical
Research, London, Canada.
Shute Institute, Medical Staff, The Heart and
Vitamin E, published by The Shute Foundation
for Medical Research, London, Canada, 1961.
Shute Institute, Medical Staff, Common
Questions on Vitamin E and Their Answers,
published by the Shute Foundation for Medical
Research, London, Canada, 1961.
Shute, Wilfrid E. and Harald J. Taub, Vita-
min E for Ailing and Healthy Heaits, Pyramid
House, New York City, 1970.
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Index
Abortion, 23, 26, 59 Gangrene, 82
Acne, 26 Glands, 46
Aging, 40
Air pollution, 63 Hair, growth of, 24
Anemia, 68 Heart conditions, 23
Angina pectoris, 31, 81, 82, 26 Heart damage, 22
Antioxidant, Vitamin E, 39 Heart disease, 73, 81, 87
Arteries, hardening of, 20, 26, Hemorrhages, 73
27,73 High blood pressure, 81
Arthritis, 29 Hormones, 44
Athletes, 17, 18, 28
Infant, food, 76
Blood clots, 25, 26, 73 Intermittent Claudication, 20
I
Blood pressure, 27 Iron, deficiency in diet, 21
Bums, 31, 73, 81
Kidney disease, 81
Cancer, 61
Cataracts, 24 Lactation disorders, 25
Celiac Disease, 70
Children, defective, 19 Mastitis, 69
Cholesterol, 90 Menopause, 25, 30
Circulation, 45 Menstruation, 25, 30
Cirrhosis, 70 Mentally defective children, 24
Convulsive diseases, 24 Miscarriage, 23, 30, 72
Cramps, 28, 82 Misirlioglu, Dr. Yousef, 98
Crib-death syndrome, 77 Mongolism, 19, 24
Cystic Fibrosis, 69 Mooney, Dr. F.L., 78
Muscles, 32
Diabetes, 26, 31, 81
Muscular dystrophy, 34, 35, 72
Diabetic gangrene, 74 Muscular weakness, 29
Diabetic retinitis, 27 Myopia, 24
Diabetic ulcers, 26, 28
Diet, deficiencies in, 21 Organic Gardening, 110, 119
Downs Syndrome, 19 Overeating, 90
Oxygen, 38
Oxygen, Vitamin E, 18
Eczema, 26
Ozone, 64
Encephalo-malacia, 70
Epidermolysis bullosa, 33, 48
Phlebitis, 19, 30, 82
Exercise and heart attacks, 90
Poho, 72
93, 94, 101
Eyes, spots before, 27 Pregnancy, 62
Premature births, 26, 28
Protein and vitamin E, 70
Fats and heart health, 80, 93
Pseudo-xanthoma elasticum, 33
Fats, polyunsaturated, 38
I Psoriasis, 25
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Index
Pulmonary embolism, 25 Ulcers, 26, 81
Unsaturated fats, 104
Radiation, 38
Red blood cells, 62 Vaginitis, 31
Restless legs, 33 Varicose ulcers, 28, 49
Rheumatic fever, 81, 82 Varicose veins, 73, 81
Rheumatism, 44 Vitamin A and cancer, 65
RH Factor, 72 Vitamin B complex and
Rose, Murray, 29 health, 99
Vitamin E, amount in food,
Salt, 76 71, 112, 122
Schneider, Dr. Howard A., Vitamin E and air pollution,
108 63
Scleroderma, 33, 71 Vitamin E as anti-coagulant,
Selenium and vitamin E, 79 81
Shute, Dr. Wilfred, 19, 80 Vitamin E deficiency, 21, 22,
Skin grafts, 73 57, 67
Smoking, 90, 91 Vitamin E for Ailing and
Sprue, 70 Healthy Heart, 80
Sterility, 25, 26, 59, 62 Vitamin E, loss of in refining,
Stress, 89 81, 106
Stroke, 15 Vitamin E, need for, 84
Summary, 18 Vitamin E, opposition to, 85
Surgery, vitamin E in, 73 Vitamin E, Your Key to a
Healthy Heart, 80
Thrombophlebitis, 28, 81
Thrombosis and vitamin E, Wheat germ, 108, 112
21 Wheat germ oil, 17, 84, 112
Tumors, 30 Williams, Dr. Roger J., 36
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