Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hormones with sex, but equally important is the part they play in nutrition and the ability of the body to use the food it gets. As we grow old, if we don't have a proper hormone balance, the body burns up its own protein. We lose carbohydrates, fat and minerals as well. Even brain tissue is absorbed. We found that old people suffered this loss even if they were eating properly. Then we found out why-they lacked androgens and estrogens. Without a proper androgen-estrogen balance, proteins are spilled over and lost...
Nationals at Forest Hills later this summer could earn him the second tennis grand slam in history (the other: Don Budge in 1938) and a fat pro contract...
...Switzerland, fat, sad ex-King Farouk of Egypt, who still cherishes the notion that he was a benign despot, succeeded in looking like a benign father. His three daughters (Ferial, Fadia, Fawzia) are by Farida, his first wife, who in three tries bore him no male heirs. At his knee, Farouk fondly held Prince Ahmed Fuad II, 3, a winsome lad and sole product of his second queen, Narriman Sadek...
...raisers commonly put a boar in with a herd of fattening sows; otherwise, on coming into heat, they would rush around and wear off a lot of market-value fat. The boar pacifies them and, in the bargain, creates the main source of Releasin...
...Black Brothers, who in turn were muscled out by Jack Spot. Born of Polish-Jewish parents in a Whitechapel tenement in 1912, Jack Spot (né Comer) was a shrewd operator with a taste for custom-made silk shirts, big black cigars and 40-guinea suits. It took a fat wad of track-protection money to buy these luxuries for Jack, but to help him collect it he had the assistance of an artful knife-wielder named Billy Hill...