Word: lactic
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...Hall in the Business School works quietly and continually. Clarence De Mar, San Romani, Johnny Kelley, Cunningham, Venzke, even Barry Wood have undergone tests by riding stationary bicycles and performing other fatiguing exercises. In addition, several dogs are employed to measure their amount of heart beats and quantity of lactic acid. The Harvard's Film Service has produced a moving picture for the Laboratory...
...contributed to scientific journals and was known for his method of estimating the lactic acid in the blood...
Physiology involved depends on the acid-alkaline condition of the body. Exertion causes the oxidation (burning) of blood sugar in the muscles. Product of that combustion is lactic acid which ordinarily changes into carbon dioxide and is exhaled. During intense effort too much lactic acid is produced in a short time to be eliminated (as oxidized gas) through the lungs. This causes trouble unless the blood contains enough alkaline substances to neutralize the acid. Oranges, grapefruit and lemons alkalinize the blood in a natural way. So do certain mineral waters. But none, according to Berlin's Professor Dennig...
...duty on Brazil's babassu nut. Prime reason is compulsory pasteurization of milk in all major markets. Familiar is everyone with the cry of the orthodox medic that pasteurization kills disease bacteria which might be present in milk. Unfamiliar is the average person with the fact that lactic acid-producing bacteria normally present in milk are likewise killed, retarding souring, making milk a semi-perishable which may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow, average city supply five days old on delivery. Thus, via the pasteurizer, every quart of milk produced east...
...fundamental effect of fever, Dr. Fishberg found, is alkalosis, caused by loss of acidic substances (chloride, lactic acid, carbon dioxide) from the body. The acid loss occurs through the skin and lungs as the body automatically struggles to cool off to normal temperature. During a five-hour bout with fever of 106° F., Dr. Fishberg's patients sweated out as much as five quarts of water, one-half ounce of salt, one-third ounce of lactic acid. Due to such acid content of sweat, athletes often complain of "stinging sweat." Because excess salt is shed through the skin...