Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody loves a fat man and even fewer people love Paul A. Dever. Nevertheless the Governor is an appealing speaker and an overly-maligned official, and we were anxious to hear him speak before the Young Democratic Club--the old Young Democratic Club--yesterday afternoon in Littauer...
...dilution of heavy water showed the total amount of water in the body. Easy as this sounds, it was not until 1950 that the method was accurate enough to satisfy Dr. Moore. Surprisingly, he found that women are less succulent than men. "It's their curves," he explains. "Fat doesn't contain much water, but muscle is full...
...learn more about water, fat and muscle and their importance to surgical patients, Dr. Moore surrounded himself with a team of equally eager young researchers. They worked at Massachusetts General and Peter Bent Brigham hospitals, both connected with Harvard Medical School, where now, at 39, Moore is a full professor. Gradually they chased down other pieces of the patient's jigsaw pattern of progress; so did other teams in other centers. Last week St. Louis' Carl A. Moyer and Manhattan's Henry T. Randall attracted attention with new (and highly technical) reports...
After a severe injury or operation, the patient first burns up his own fat as a source of energy. (Dr. Moore's team has just reported that as many as 4,000 calories a day may thus be burned.) This goes far to explain what had long been known but little understood: why the patient seems to have no appetite or even need for food soon after an operation. A normally built man has enough fat (about 15% of his body weight) to tide him over most operations; a "soft," curvaceous woman may have...
While the patient is burning fat, the body demands water and stores it up. This phase usually lasts two to three days after a severe operation; it may last five. But before the first week is out, the process normally begins to reverse itself, presumably because the hormone switches have been flicked. The patient than gets hungry. He needs fat and carbohydrates from food to provide calories. He starts to take up nitrogen and rebuild muscle protein at the same prodigious rate as a one-year-old (suggesting that the growth hormone may have been switched on). The need...