Word: diarrheas
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Starving Africans throw away gifts of American powdered milk, complaining that it harbors evil spirits. Colombian Indians refuse to drink reconstituted milk and use it instead to paint their huts. On the Navajo reservation, many Indians discard Government-issue powdered milk rather than suffer diarrhea. All have a problem in common. A surprisingly large portion of the world's population cannot digest an important ingredient in milk: lactose...
...peoples used the milk as a food supplement for youths and adults. Among these tribes, McCracken suggests, individuals whose lactase was not turned off after weaning benefited from milk's rich nutrients; they grew bigger and stronger than those who were deficient in lactase and weakened by milk diarrhea. Through natural selectivity, adults who continued to produce lactase eventually predominated...
From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis,, diarrhea, saramonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place a fish in a container of river water, it will die in 60 seconds. Dilute the water 100 times with clear water, and the fish will die in 24 hours...
From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis., diarrhea, salamonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place a fish in a container of river water, it will die n 60 seconds. Dilute the water 100 times with clear water, and the fish will die in 24 hours...
From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis, diarrhea, anthrax, salmonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place a fish in a container of river water, it will die in sixty seconds. Dilute the water a hundred times with clear water, and the fish will die in twenty-four hours...