Word: cholesterol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's discussions were informal and preliminary. No one knows exactly what makes the circulation go haywire. Heredity has something to do with it. So does diet. Emotional strain helps to bring the condition on. Arteriosclerosis seems to be connected somehow with cholesterol, a fat substance found in foods. Experimenters have produced hardening of the arteries in animals by feeding them concentrated cholesterol...
...dropped into syrup, and sugar crystallizes around the threads. In the formation of gallstones: 1) the juices in the gall bladder become thickened by bacterial infection; 2) delicate cells drop off the bladder walls into the cavity, combine with the thick juices to form a tiny core; 3) cholesterol (one of the solids in bile) gathers around the nucleus, hardens into a stone...