Articles on Holland (Nederland) in TIME (1923 – )
Dutch researchers report that using plant-derived margarines once a day at lunch seems to drive down bad-cholesterol levels as effectively as consuming them three times a day.
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SURVIVORS An experimental bone-marrow transplant may help treat kidney cancer, a disease so virulent that once it spreads, it kills half its victims within a year. Stem cells–the primordial cells that give rise to new cell lines–are collected from bone marrow. Once transplanted, they generate a…
Unilever introduced an improved version of Planta’s margerine. But as Planta’s sales curves soared, Dutch doctors began getting patients troubled by a strange and painful itch.
Early last month, when a splashy advertising campaign urged Dutchmen to “taste the improvement” in their favorite spread, thousands of housewives obediently followed directions. Most of them agreed that there was indeed something different about the new version of their old friend Planta, the good-eating margarine made by Van den…