Word: creamed
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...riddle the smart medical resident solved was this: the student nurse had come in to say goodnight to her patient. She then gave him a backrub. And what did she use for the backrub? The cream on the bedside table - Nitropaste. The huge surface area of his back gave the patient a walloping dose. Even the surface area of the nurse's hands was enough to knock her out. Smiles went all around. Though the two weren't awake yet, we all knew that they were safe - a good thing about Nitropaste is you can "turn it off," rapidly stopping...
...various chocolate milk cartons side by side with popular colas. "I don't think parents realize that when they offer up sweetened chocolate milk, they're generally giving their children ounce for ounce the same amount of sugar as sodas do," she says. A container of Hershey's Vanilla Cream Milkshake, for instance, has 560 calories and 77 grams of sugar. "If you're going to drink milk, choose a lower-fat version," Lanou says. "And consider water or a healthy juice instead...
Then we started hearing from the scientists. People who thought they were doing everything right, it turned out, were actually abusing their bodies--and in particular, their hearts. The cholesterol in steaks, cream, butter and especially those breakfast eggs was clogging arteries like sludge in a stopped-up drainpipe. Salt was poison: it drove up blood pressure and put an unhealthy strain on the ticker. Overeating and becoming overweight were a sure ticket to a coronary...
...next phase of research, the object became keeping cholesterol levels in the blood under control and not necessarily keeping the cholesterol out of the diet. But how to do it? Again the key seemed to be eating less red meat, cream and butter, but it was based not so much on cholesterol as on saturated fat. Reason: saturated fat increases blood cholesterol. So eggs, high in cholesterol but not in saturated fat, were taken off the forbidden list, except for those people with the most serious cholesterol problems...
Doctors then began recommending foods and activities that drive down LDL and triglycerides (eat less meat, cream and butter--one recommendation that has never changed--add olive oil and fish to the diet) and at the same time push up HDL (get more exercise and lose weight...