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...substance is cholestyramine, developed by Dow Chemical Co. as a water softener because impurities in the water become bound to its particles and can be precipitated out. By a similar process, the chemical can bind to itself bile acids in the digestive tract so that they are expelled in the feces...
Only Suggestive. When the cholestyramine resin particles latch onto bile acids in the intestine and cause them to be excreted, the body's automatic governor reacts to this loss by telling the liver to make more bile acids. To do so, the liver uses cholesterol already in the body as its main source of raw material, thus reducing the stored cholesterol. By parallel mechanisms, cholestyramine also appears to reduce the absorption of fats into the blood and their deposition at various sites in the body, including artery walls...
...Stand Down, Monkey." The State Department received a few hundred nasty letters and calls, just as here and there around the country the kooks and bigots relieved themselves of excess bile at Rusk's expense. An American Nazi Party captain in El Monte, Calif., declared: "I'd probably kill any of my children before I'd let them do such a thing." His reaction was echoed by a respectable businessman lunching at the Westmoreland Country Club in Glenview, Ill.: "If I were Rusk, I'd be inclined to shoot the guy." A grande dame...
Nitty Belcher. At that point, shrewd old Jack Warner, sensing that Dennis was "going to be a very big star," foxed the trade by gambling on her in his $6,000,000 adaptation of the bile-black comedy Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Director Mike Nichols was frankly worried about Dennis' reputation for being obstreperous, but happily found her "just about the easiest actress to work with that I have ever met." And her co-stars agreed...
Roger Lowenstein 2L, one of the poll's organizers, felt that the opening of Lamont to Cliffies has "removed much of the bile" that caused the girls to complain about the superabundance of males in their library during the more crowded hours...