By W. J. McCormick, MD
Summary: Writing at 81 years of age, the famous Canadian MD discusses the relationship between smoking mothers, vitamin C deficiency, and the rising incidence of leukemia in the very young. "This close link [between leukemia and] scurvy seems to have been completely overlooked by modern writers on leukemia," McCormick says, "the major stress being given to genetic changes in chromosomes, irrespective of possible adverse contributing maternal factors." Once again, medicine's myopic view of disease as the result of "bad genes or germs" prevented consideration of malnutrition as a possible cause of an illness barely known to our whole-food-eating ancestors. From the Journal of Applied Nutrition. Reprint 5G, 1961.
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