Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accurately enough that distilled liquors and unfortified wines contain negligible amounts of carbohydrates. Alcohol's calories, they argue, just don't count-they somehow disappear in a mysterious metabolic process. The truth is that soon after alcohol gets out of the bottle and into a healthy liver, it goes through a series of complex processes, one product of which is a sugar (a carbohydrate). And if it is just used for energy, much of this may be turned into...
...many disorders of the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, one of the most troublesome symptoms is the ancient complaint "the dropsy"?retention of salt and water so that the patient becomes bloated with brine. If the victim already has heart trouble, the edema will make it worse. In the mildest cases, cutting out salt may be adequate treatment. For more severe cases, a variety of chemicals is available. But some patients become resistant to any one medicine, so they have to switch prescriptions, and doctors eventually run out of alternatives...
...suppose I sold more milk than anybody who ever lived." No, that's not Elsie the Borden cow speaking but Elmer Verner McCollum, who in 1918, as a University of Wisconsin researcher, first identified vitamin A in butterfat. He followed this in 1922 with the discovery (in cod-liver oil) of vitamin D, now irradiated in a goodly portion of the nation's milk. Though retired from his last post, as professor of biochemistry at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, he writes and conducts experiments there, at 85 a lively testimonial to the balanced diet...
Perilous Aphrodisiac. The peril and excitement come from other fugu dishes. Most risky is a milky-white preparation of fugu testes that is mixed with hot sake and drunk by eager virility seekers. The testes are nontoxic, but the ovaries and liver are so deadly that small bits of them can kill a man, and it takes an experienced chef to distinguish a deadly liver from an aphrodisiac testis...
...campaign manager in the upset election of Governor Philip Hoff (Vermont's first Democrat in 107 years), last year suddenly resigned as Hoff's chief aide and state party chairman with a public announcement that he was an incurable alcoholic; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Gardner, Mass...