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...melting pot" may be an old-fashioned description of New York, but candidates for high office are more or less required to ingest as much of this fare as they can physically consume. Call it "Rockefeller...
...inhibits fatty buildup but does not completely prevent the enzymes from doing their job. According to Dr. Jonathan Hauptman, director of therapeutic research at Hoffmann-La Roche, the body produces lipase in such quantities that the drug is only about 30% effective, no matter how much of it you ingest. If you took a dose of orlistat and then ate 100 grams of fat (roughly four Big Macs), 70 of those grams would be absorbed as usual and 30 grams would pass, undigested, through the intestine...
...takes a couple of minutes for the tongue and the brain to comprehend what has just happened to them when you first ingest Diet Crystal Pepsi. At first, you think you've just drunk a lightly sweetened mineral water. On the second sip, your nose tingles and your throat burns slightly, alerting you to the fact that the drink is carbonated...
Those lucky enough to ingest the spores without becoming seriously ill seem to acquire immunity. More serious cases are often mistaken for pneumonia, since the fungus flourishes in the moist, warm environment of the lungs. In about 1% of victims, the disease spreads beyond the lungs through the bloodstream -- typically to the skin, bones and the membranes surrounding the brain, causing meningitis. "There was a time when I saw three new cases of cocci meningitis a year," says Dr. Royce Johnson, chief of infectious diseases at Bakersfield's Kern Medical Center. "Not long ago, I saw three new cases...
...least, the chemicals in these foods are carcinogenic in rats, which may or may not mean anything for humans; and they are tested at very high doses, which may not apply at the levels people normally ingest. And that, the authors emphasize, is the point: the traditional method used to assess cancer risk is flawed and should be reformed...