Word: digests
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...more we grind, mill, refine and strip grains of their constituent parts, such as bran, the fiber-rich outer layer, the more quickly our bodies are able to digest them--and the sooner we're hungry again. In ascending order of processing...
While the first two inhibitors work to prevent the virus from infecting a host cell, the protease inhibitor class of drugs works to disable protease, an enzyme occurring naturally in every living organism that works to digest proteins...
...Buddhist monks of Thailand's Forest Tradition, despite eating only one meager meal a day and sleeping only four to six hours a night, tend to live very long lives. The tranquillity of their minds promotes longevity. Naturally, eating more food requires the body to work harder to digest it, resulting in more wear and tear on the body's organs; similarly, a tranquil mind requires little energy. Genetics plays only an indirect role, for tranquil-minded, sparely eating parents tend to raise their children to be the same. Tawit Chitsomboon Nakornratchasima, Thailand...
...strings at a higher level." There is little conclusive evidence, however, and senior members of the armed forces inside Iraq tend to see things differently. Major Joffery Watson, an intelligence officer based in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, sympathizes with his colleagues back home--"It's easier for us to digest if we can attribute everything to a single group"--but he doesn't buy the analysis. "It's more like gangs," he says...
...keeps me alive.” Over three centuries and several thousand miles away, the Harvard students who are bombarded daily with a plethora of fine words—including, from time to time, Molière’s own—are still waiting for administrators to digest his message...