Word: germ
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whole grains contain all three parts of the kernel: the bran, which is packed with fiber and B vitamins; the carbohydrate-rich core, or endosperm; and the germ, which is also full of B vitamins as well as other micronutrients. Finely milling the grains produces a flour that lacks the bran and the germ, leaving only the endosperm behind. Manufacturers enrich their refined products with some of the missing vitamins, but researchers suspect that it's the combination of everything--the fiber, the vitamins, the minerals and, no doubt, other as yet undiscovered nutritional ingredients--that makes whole grains healthy...
...EATING Consuming wheat germ, sardines, whole grains and other foods high in vitamin E may protect your heart better than taking vitamin E supplements. A study out last week found that women whose diet was naturally high in E were more resistant to the presence of dangerous oxidizing chemicals in their blood than were those who took vitamin pills. It seemed that the supplements blocked some of the benefits of vitamins found in food...
Before we talked, Mandel kept me on hold for 20 seconds while he Lysoled his phone. He had not heard of the Killer Germ. "Are you calling to ruin my life?" he yelled. Then he explained how his precautions were actually logical responses to real risks. I found myself agreeing with him until I noticed the amount of times he used the phrase mucous membrane...
...turns out the Killer Germ is not the result of lazy hygiene but the result of people needlessly taking antibiotics to fight off head colds, thus somehow causing the germs they already have to mutate into crazed killers. I've been told by a doctor friend that antibacterial products do the same thing. Worse, they don't keep you from getting sick, because colds and flus are caused by viruses, not bacteria. Before I could even ask, my friend told me there was no antiviral hand soap...
...Killer Germ is a Frankenstein's monster built from our collective neuroses. To fight this new battle, I now think that everyone, even exhibitionist models with a knack for sensuous hand gestures, should abandon their Purell. Except me. I haven't been waging the germ war because I'm afraid of getting sick. I like being sick. It means I get to stay home and watch that little yodeling mountain climber on The Price Is Right. No, I'm waging my own secret, illogical germ warfare because that way, when the end comes and it's just me and Mandel...