Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mindless Machine. Then why do most smokers smoke so heavily when under stress? Schachter's answer: because stress depletes body nicotine, and the smoker has to puff more to keep at his usual nicotine level. The key is the acidity of urine. One result of anxiety and stress is a high acid content in the urine. Highly acidic urine flushes away much more body nicotine than normal urine does. Schachter discovered that smokers who were administered mild acids (vitamin C and Acidulin) in heavy doses smoked more over a period of days than comparable smokers who took bicarbonates...
This effect of the environment in the gut on the normal flora is readily recognized. For example, when breast feeding is replaced by solid food the character of the stool changes dramatically, as lactic acid bacteria (which produce sweet-smelling products) are replaced by E. coli and other foul organisms. Early in this century Mechnikov romantically hoped to promote longevity by supplying lactic acid bacteria, in the form of yogurt, to displace the presumably toxic foul organisms. The experiments were a dismal failure, but the commerical success is still seen...
...party landed in Salisbury, it was ignored by Rhodesian Foreign Affairs Minister Pieter K. van der Byl, who also happened to be at the airport. In the capital, the attitude of whites toward the visitors was equally hostile. After police arrested a man for carrying a vial of acid, he boasted that he had planned to toss it into Richard's face...
Thomas Mason and Hugh Winokur, both juniors, are two of nine students who received suspensions of up to four academic terms for dropping butiric acid, a strong smelling chemical, into a Yale dining hall, causing an estimated $6000 in damage...
...protest campaign being carried on for Bukovsky in the West. The prison grapevine quickly carried the news of Bukovsky's dramatic month-long hunger strike. Before and after his fast, Bukovsky, like other prisoners, received only minimal fare. Lunch consisted of thin gruel, while dinner was a watery, acid soup. Inmates also received ¾ oz. of sugar and 2 oz. of salted fish per day. "It's rotten fish," Bukovsky recalled. "I don't know what sea they catch it in, but I couldn...