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NATIONAL HEALTH JOURNAL ARTIFICI SPIDER BITE ABNORMAL BABIES the concern about A Gripping New Paperback On Today's Hottest Issue! Itteire A cce.._ eal You may be in for a surprise if you just check the facts! Told in graphic story form the way it is, this book lets you see what drugs can do—and have done—to their users. You'll soon decide that liquor, acid, and pot are not very groovy, and that life offers you some- thing better. ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY only s2.25 each Review and Herald Publishing Assn., Box 4353, Washington, D.C. 20012 July, 1972 LIFE AND HEALTH NATIONAL HEALTH JOURNAL 88th Year of Publication Volume 87, No. 7 FEATUREC Your Right to Good Health 6 M. G. Hardinge, M.D. Will large sums of government money assure everyone of adequate health care? Spider Bite 10 Amil J. Johnson, M.D. Spiders are here to stay. Find out which ones are actually dangerous. • Normal Parents; Abnormal Babies? 13 W R. Centerwall, M.D., MS., M.P.H. How is it that parents who appear normal in every way sometimes have abnormal offspring? Low Blood Sugar 16 Many people feel tired and dragged out most of the time. The trouble could be hypoglycemia. A Hospital's Not for Resting 22 Bertha Kerr If you've ever been a hospital patient, you can probably sympathize with this lady. Artificial Mothers 26 If you feel you don't have time to cuddle your baby, you had r t— better take note. Mervyn G. Hardinge, M.D., Dr. P.H., DEPARTMENTS Ph. D. Editor Your Health Questions Answered 5 Don Hawley Health High Lights 8 Managing Editor House Call 21 —So You Gotta Cough Harold W. Munson Art Editor Your Wonderful Body 23 —Red Blood Cells Don Fiol Can You Face the Facts 24 Layout and Design —Vitamin C Megatherapy MariLynn R. Spencer What's New? 28 Editorial Secretary Recipe of the Month 29 R. J. Kaiser —Savory Patties Braille Life and Health Editor International Health 30 Edmund M. Peterson Abstracts 32 Circulation Manager Book Review 33 Clifford K. 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Rats lack the enzyme may even be fatal. ple, single-cell organism and when used that breaks down the sugars lactose and The Public Health Service Advisory in powdered form, such as brewers' galactose. Only a rare human lacks this Committee on Immunization Practices yeast or Torula yeast, not only provides it enzyme. Yogurt is a nutritious food and recommends that all children who have good protein but is a rich source of the when eaten with other foods may find a not had German measles or measles B-complex vitamins. At the present time, useful place in the diet. vaccine should be vaccinated. This throughout the world, industry and gov- Whenever you eat only one food, re- should be done when the child is one ernments are interested in attempting to gardless of how nutritious it is, you are year of age or as soon as possible there- harness unicellular or simple multicel- headed for nutritional trouble. If, on the after. Vaccination of adults has not been lular organisms such as yeast, bacteria, other hand, you eat a small variety of considered necessary, because nearly algae, fungi, et cetera, as a source of foods per meal and a larger variety per everyone over fifteen years old is im- food. The letters SCP, or single-cell day and per week, selecting these from mune. protein, are applied to this form of food. unrefined sources, you can be assured Gamma globulin, an immune protein An article in Food Technology (25:98, of sound nutrition. (See J.A.M.A., 217: obtained from human blood plasma or 1971) describes the use of algae by the 1113, 1971.) from persons convalescing from measles, natives of the Lake Chad region of Af- Those liquid diets can prevent or modify the course of rica, and there are indications that algae measles, if given soon after the disease were used in ancient Mexico by the O. Are liquid diets nutritionally bal- Aztecs. The greatest hindrance to the anced, and how successful have they develops. This is frequently given to use of this type of food is its acceptance. been in helping to achieve weight loss? pregnant women as it appears to pre- vent birth defects. (See Measles vac- To date, flavor and to some extent tech- A. These types of diet are not a cines. Recommendation of the Public nology are the greatest barriers to wide reasonable approach to the problem of Health Service Advisory Committee on use. (See Food Techn., 25:98, 1971.) weight control. Although their nutrient Immunization Practices, Ann. Int. Med., content for a single meal is satisfactory, 76:101-104, 1972.) Coronary it is not desirable to use them as a total Q.