Word: milke
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...blood sugar by varying their diet. Food rich in protein, she points out, causes blood sugar to peak about three hours after it is eaten; carbohydrates produce a much swifter rise. When blood-sugar levels are too low, producing a weak and dizzy state called hypoglycemia, Turro recommends drinking milk, which contains carbohydrates to produce a quick rise and protein to sustain...
...Currier, Brian Nalebuff, a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows, joins House life by "organizing milk and cookies, help helping students with their essays, eating with them in the dining half four to five times a week, rowing and playing squash for the House, and proctoring parties...
American dairy farmers, it seems, have been extraordinarily successful at milking the Treasury as well as their herds. Although the total number of dairy cows has gone steadily up since 1979 and milk output has swollen accordingly, the Government's generosity makes it profitable for farmers to produce still more. One unhappy result: the Government is holding almost 17 billion lbs. of surplus "milk equivalent"-mounds of milk, butter and cheese-in warehouses and caves around the country under a price-support program that cost taxpayers $2.5 billion in fiscal...
Last week the House approved a radical approach to the problem. By a vote of 325 to 91, it passed a bill that would for the first time pay dairy farmers not to produce milk. In the past, such "paid diversions" have been offered to grain and cotton farmers. The bill provides for payments to farmers of $10 for each 100 lbs. of milk (about 12 gal.) not produced, up to 30% of their average annual output. The price-support level for milk-the price at which the Government agrees to buy up surpluses-would be trimmed immediately from...
...Reagan will sign the bill once the House and Senate have ironed out their small differences. Either way, the real test will come in 1985, when Congress is scheduled to do a comprehensive overhaul of all farm-price programs. Then it will be seen who has more clout, the milk lobby or the milk consumers...