Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bananas & Diarrhea, There is a stubborn, debilitating form of diarrhea called celiac disease. It is most common in children under 5. They cannot digest sugars, starches or fats. Dr. Sidney Valentine Haas of Manhattan found that ripe bananas, for some not fully understood reason, have the power to break up starches and convert cane sugar into more easily tolerated fruit sugar. With carbohydrate (sugar, starch) assimilation taken care of, digestion of fats takes care of itself. Ripe bananas contain all the essential vitamins, except bone-forming D. For times & places where ripe bananas are not available, there are now available...
...more spots may become ulcerated, the mucosa eroded. The erosion may bare the stomach wall. Nothing then protects the wall from the corroding action of hydrochloric acid and pepsin. Unless the process is halted, the gastric juices digest a hole right through the stomach...
...twelve years, the House of Representatives voted upon legislation to end prohibition, with results now familiar to everyone. Those who note only the dry majority in the roll call ignore its essential significance. That can best be seen in the light of the national Prohibition poll of the Literary Digest...
That inquisitive journal the Literary Digest, is now conducting a nationwide poll on Prohibition. The vote conducted two years ago on this subject proved little, since in offering three alternatives, repeal, modification, and enforcement, no one received a majority of votes. Though the earlier Prohibition poll was inconclusive, the presidential poll of 1928 proved to be surprisingly accurate. The present questionnaire, offering only two choices, will probably decide with equal exactitude the sentiment of the American voters. Th large number of replies already counted show a decided wet majority in every state. Although the method of choosing voters prevented...
...citizens The Literary Digest last week began mailing ballots for its third national Prohibition poll. Unlike its last ballot, scattering votes among "For," "Against" and "Modification," this one was limited to "For" or "Against" the 18th Amendment. ¶ After discovering 100 cases of liquor and a sub-calibre machine gun in a dwelling house, Federal Prohibition agents in New Orleans last week arrested Charles Genard, onetime halfback at Loyola Uni-versity (New Orleans), sought his brother, Dominick. president of Loyola's freshman class, and their father. College officials were amazed to learn that the Genard family was accused...