Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army; have been since November. I have very little time for reading, but I manage to digest TIME each week. In reading the April 14 issue, I ran across a very interesting letter from Reader Kemper...
Four months ago Reader's Digest left its calling card in Latin America-a Spanish-language edition of 117,000 copies. To newsstands went 80,000 copies (10? a copy); to subscribers went 37,000 annual subscriptions ($1 a year), about half of them donated by good-neighborly U.S. readers. Included were 32 pages of ads-first in Reader's Digest-by such firms as Gillette Razor, General Motors, Parker Pen, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, big oil companies...
Last week Reader's Digest reported a thriving Latin-American friendship: Current print order of Selecciones del Reader's Digest is 350,000, biggest of Spanish-language magazines. Of these, about 255,-ooo will go to South American newsstands, 75,000 to subscribers, about 20,000 to Spanish classes in U.S. high schools and colleges...
Food Allergy. Babies may become sensitized to foods for life when, instead of living on mothers' milk, they "have to digest as best they can potentially harmful 'foreign proteins' that come from a cow." Adults may become sensitized to some foods because "on a certain occasion they ate so much of some food that all of it could not be digested and some of it passed unchanged through the wall of the bowel and into the blood stream." Skin tests to find annoying foods give "erratic results," are a waste of money...
...Chandler seldom counts calories, is never finicky. He claims that the flesh of rattlesnakes is "delicious and nutritious," that "grasshoppers, caterpillars and termites . . . afford wholesome food if there is no acquired aversion." Besides these odd chips of information, Dr. Chandler's book (The Eater's Digest, Farrar & Rinehart; $2.75) is packed with practical discussions on such things as digestion, nutritional diseases, bellyaches, diet during pregnancy, ravenous children, vitamins (if you don't like spinach, don't eat it, but be sure to buy your vitamins in the drugstore...