Word: proteins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hemophilia victim lives in constant danger. From minor injuries to any form of surgery, the least leak in his circulatory system may require massive plasma transfusions as doctors try to supply a lifesaving amount of a missing clot-promoting protein. But all too often, new blood or plasma cannot be pumped into a "bleeder" in sufficient quantity without risk of overloading his circulatory system. Some concentrates of the vital protein are available, but they are expensive. Now Stanford Physiologist Judith Graham Pool has developed a simple, cheap and effective method of concentrating the protein in so potent a form that...
...high-protein diet, which included eggs, skimmed milk, ground beef, margarine, toast, tomato soup, catchup, green peas and applesauce...
...part, Unit Director Dr. Wayne Greenberg concurs: "This isn't something magical. The thing is that Cobb had no access to extra food." Dr. Greenberg found Cobb's weight loss about the same on all three diets. But significantly, with the protein diet, what disappeared was almost all body fat, and Cobb felt least hungry between meals. With the high-fat diet, two-thirds of the loss was fat; the rest was mostly water (one unwanted side effect: an increase of cholesterol and other blood fats). On the carbohydrate diet, only half the loss was fat; the rest...
Doctors have long known that at this later stage, the nerve fibers controlling the affected muscles have lost much of their protective sheathing (like insulation on electric wires), a fat-protein combination called myelin. But how to explain the early, on-again-off-again phase of the disease? The question seems particularly urgent because a satisfactory answer might lead into new areas of research and, hopefully, toward control or even prevention...
...mother's guilty awareness of unwashed floors and dirty dishes and her friends who want to see the new baby." The secret of successful nursing is simply to nurse the baby often; the process stimulates the breasts to produce more milk. A proper diet, high in fat and protein, with a stein of beer or ale twice a day, will increase the mother's milk supply almost without fail. Such simple facts, essential to successful breast feeding, should be explained to the expectant mother by her physician, says Dr. Grossman...