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...seems, is bad because it eats up calcium that the youngster needs in order to grow strong bones and teeth. If the child is getting lots of milk and has calcium to burn, the result may not be too bad, provided the oxalic salts do not rotate the bladder or turn into kidney stones. But if children are not getting enough milk and protein, spinach just makes things worse by cutting down the calcium available for the bones. As for the good things that are supposed to be in spinach, such as vitamin C and iron, the Bamjis suggest that...
Living Assets. Corporations with health programs (which range in cost from $35 to $125 a year for each executive) are convinced that they are hardheaded business investments. In the 18,000 examinations that General Motors executives have undergone since 1944, ailments such as gall bladder trouble, which could be cured by a change of diet, serious sinus infections and potentially fatal malignancies which required surgery have been discovered. In G.M.'s program, the director Dr. Max Burnell, has calculated that 422 persons underwent operations after the examinations disclosed hidden ailments. Jones & Laughlin's medical director, Dr. John Laurer...
Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, now serving a five-year sentence for conspiracy in Atlanta's federal penitentiary, entered the prison hospital to have his infected gall bladder removed...
...Labor's official Parliamentary spokesmen, sitting on the front bench Nye would now have to preserve at least a semblance of party unity, behave politely to Opposition Leader Attlee and save his insults for Prime Minister Churchill, whom he once described as "a bloated bladder of lies." From across the way, Churchill would doubtless find him, as he had before, "a squalid nuisance...
...Chicago, twelve years ago, the charred and battered body of Oilman Paul Ryan was pulled from the wreckage of an airliner. His skull and pelvis were fractured, his legs were shredded, the muscles of his eyes and ears were torn. His left hand was nearly ripped off, and his bladder was ruptured. Even when he surprised the doctors by living on and finally walking again, insurance companies listed him as 100% disabled...