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...bland diet rich in milk and cream. If they then get cramping ab dominal pains, nausea and diarrhea, even worse than their original com plaints, their doctors usually put them on a still blander diet - meaning more milk. If such patients shirk their milk drinking and their symptoms diminish, the usual explanation is a quick, glib suggestion that they must be allergic to milk. Not so, report two University of Colorado doctors in the Journal of the A.M.A. The trouble is far more likely to be a shortage of the enzyme that the body uses to digest milk sugar (lactose...
...legitimate. There is even more uncertainty, say some lawyers, about whether the donor himself can be made to support a child. Some state laws hold that every child is the responsibility of its "natural parents"-which in A.I.D. cases means mother and donor. If sustained, those laws might rapidly diminish the supply of willing donors...
...messages to Hanoi saying, 'Now conditions for talks exist. Now play your part. Your friends in this country who want peace expect you to respond.' I'd like to have seen the peace-in-Viet Nam lobby outside the Chinese embassy demanding that the Chinese government diminish their malevolent pressures on Hanoi, preventing Hanoi from following what might be her natural inclinations to ma.ke peace...
Although more people will drink, the "practice drinking" plan should actually diminish total consumption of alcohol by reducing the number of heavy drinkers, Chafetz said...
When he signed the bill into law, Johnson declared that this provision "would dilute and diminish the authority and power of the Presidency" and that he had not been elected "to preside over its erosion." The President said he had directed the Secretary of the Army to ignore the provision and that he would seek its repeal...