Word: celiacous
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...early 1920s found cures for two of childhood's most troublesome ailments, discovering that minuscule doses of highly poisonous atropine would curb colic among infants (it is now also used by ulcer patients), and that a year-long diet of bananas would completely rehabilitate sufferers from celiac disease, which causes such acute diarrhea that one-fourth of its victims used to die from malnutrition; in Orange...
Recessive Gene. After Dr. Andersen defined cystic fibrosis, doctors saw that previously they had been dismissing the lung symptoms as pneumonia, and confusing the intestinal upset with something else-celiac disease. Gradually, they learned that cystic fibrosis is by no means rare; by current estimates, one child in 600 is affected. It is inherited and may strike all the children in a susceptible family, or only one in ten, but the average is one in four...
Bananas & Diarrhea, There is a stubborn, debilitating form of diarrhea called celiac disease. It is most common in children under 5. They cannot digest sugars, starches or fats. Dr. Sidney Valentine Haas of Manhattan found that ripe bananas, for some not fully understood reason, have the power to break up starches and convert cane sugar into more easily tolerated fruit sugar. With carbohydrate (sugar, starch) assimilation taken care of, digestion of fats takes care of itself. Ripe bananas contain all the essential vitamins, except bone-forming D. For times & places where ripe bananas are not available, there are now available...