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Victor Herbert (hematologist)

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as "a must for all readers who value the importance of nutrition in public health but are chagrined by the pretenders who exploit the public with food frauds, dietary cures, and nutrition nonsense." His book
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The lymphocyte as a marker of past nutritional status: persistence of abnormal lymphocyte deoxyuridine (dU) suppression test and chromosomes in patients with past deficiency of folate and vitamin B-12
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His post at the end of his career was Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and Chief of Mount Sinai's Hematology and Nutrition Research Laboratory in the
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Herbert served in four wars: World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the first Gulf War. On retirement his rank was Lt. Col. (Green Berets).
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by living on diet of thrice-boiled chicken, marshmallows and jelly was reported on in the third episode of the BBC series the Medical Mavericks.
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Scott, John M. (2004) Victor Herbert (1927–2002), The American Society for Nutritional Sciences J. Nutr. 134:1678-1680, July 2004
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The measurement of folic acid activity in serum: a diagnostic aid in the differentiation of the megaloblastic anaemias
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Herbert, V., Baker, H., Frank, O., Pasher, I., Sobotka, H. & Wasserman, L. R. (1960)
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Depletion of serum holotranscobalamin II. An early sign of negative vitamin B-12 balance
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Interrelations of vitamin B-12 and folic acid metabolism: folic acid clearance studies
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The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry is Selling America a Bill of Goods
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The Vitamin Pushers: How the Health Food Industry is Selling America a Bill of Goods
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Herbert authored over 800 scientific papers, many book chapters, and several books.
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Mechanism of intrinsic factor action in everted sacs of rat small intestine
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and was a proponent of accurate and responsible nutrition information.
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Robert H. Hermon Award (1986), American Society of Clinical Nutrition
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Honorary Membership Award (1993), American Dietetic Association
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NCAHF - Obituary of Victor Herbert, MD, JD, M.A.C.P., F.R.S.M.
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McCollum Award (1972), American Society of Clinical Nutrition
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Haemoglobin-coated charcoal assay for serum vitamin in B-12
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Radioisotopic assay for measurement of serum folate levels
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His self experimentation to prove the health benefits of
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industry, based on more than twenty years of research.
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Vitamins and `Health' Foods: The Great American Hustle
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Transactions of the Association of American Physicians
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Vitamins and "Health" Foods: The Great American Hustle
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Vitamins and `Health' Foods: The Great American Hustle
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Index

hematologist
folate
megaloblastic anemia
Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center
folic acid
alternative medicine
quackery
Stephen Barrett
The New England Journal of Medicine
health food
Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
Nutrition Cultism: Facts and Fictions
The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry is Selling America a Bill of Goods
Prometheus Books
Transactions of the Association of American Physicians
British Journal of Haematology
Nutrition Cultism
The Western Journal of Medicine
Laboratory Investigation



NCAHF - Obituary of Victor Herbert, MD, JD, M.A.C.P., F.R.S.M.



victorherbert.com
Book Review: Nutrition Cultism
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Sampson, Wallace

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