Word: diets
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...book (aside from emphasis on the imagined importance of a full output of ear wax): "Arthritis is a deficiency of specific dietary oils. This deficiency results in a ... lack of better-grade lubricating oils for the bodily joints." The answer to it is just a question of diet, says Alexander. Sample recommendation: "If cereal is eaten at breakfast, be sure that the milk you pour on it is of room temperature...
...bearing surfaces in joints lose their smooth mobility. Resulting handicap may be negligible or severe; it is rarely disabling. Aspirin helps to ease pain, as does heat (hot baths or heating pads); injection of hydrocortisone into a particular joint may give relief for months. A well-balanced, vitamin-rich diet is good for an oldster's general wellbeing, but has no direct relationship to the disease. Still incurable, but can often be relieved...
Arthritis Due to Gout. The one rheumatic disease for which the cause is known, up to a point (the body's inability to dispose of purines without creating an excess of uric acid), and the only one for which diet is important. About 95% of victims are males. The disease smolders indefinitely, but is marked by acute flare-ups with excruciating pain in swollen, inflamed joints. In rare cases, it can threaten life by depositing uric acid crystals in the kidneys or heart. Sufferers must avoid foods rich in purines-yeast, herring roe, sardines, asparagus, and many organ meats...
...contentment of the Pygmies puzzled the anthropologist, and he searched for a reason for it. After studying their diet, he decided that their euphoria is due to one of their favorite dishes: big beetles and their larvae, the size of small sausages. A lucky Pygmy may find as many as 100 larvae in a riddled tree trunk. He bakes them with hot stones in a hole in the ground (New England clambake technique), and when he has eaten his fill, he feels as contented as a Hollywood agent tranquilized with Miltown...
Thus far, the University police and the Animal Rescue League have both been watching for signs of the cat, which must observe a certain diet because of an old automobile injury...