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Around Christmas of last year, a British journalist working on a biography of the pop star revealed that Jackson was suffering from alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a genetic condition that affects the lungs and liver. The author, Ian Halperin, told In Touch magazine at the time that Jackson needed a lung transplant and was bleeding in the intestines. He also claimed that Jackson couldn't see out of his left eye and was so winded that he could barely speak most of the time. Jackson's spokesman, Dr. Tohme Tohme, was widely quoted as denying the health problems, saying that...
...that" is lifted straight from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - but only the first three words make it into the mash-up. Same with Silence of the Lambs: We hear Anthony Hopkins' evil slurp, but the video edits out the quote that precedes it: "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...
...reason studies show that so many Americans don't get enough D. But we don't want taking advantage of the potential benefits of vitamin D to mean increased risk of contracting skin cancer. In addition to supplements, there are foods that naturally contain vitamin D (salmon, egg yolks, liver) and others that are fortified with it (milk, cereals, juices, breads). And, of course, there is always cod-liver oil. Good luck trying to get your kids to swallow that...
Then the hospital had a request. "After she died," Jose Luis says, "they told me they needed some samples to be sent to Mexico because her disease had been so different, so I let them." The results of the biopsies of Adela's lungs and liver would help send Mexico and the world into a panic: she had the H1N1 swine flu virus and was the first known fatality. On the day she died, the state of Oaxaca notified the Ministry of Health that it had a case of atypical swine flu; and on Sunday, Health Minister Dr. Martin Vazquez...
...original version of this story misidentified the body's insulin-producing organ. It is the pancreas, not the liver. The story also misstated that high-fructose corn syrup is cheaper than glucose. It is not, but it is cheaper than sucrose...