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Compared with other more complex organs, the bladder has a relatively simple structure and function. It is a remarkably elastic, muscular sac lying in the pelvic cavity. It receives urine from the kidneys through two slender tubes called ureters, expands to pint or even quart size as it stores urine, then contracts and discharges it from the body through a third tube called a urethra. People with no bladders, or with diseased bladders, usually live in great discomfort and with considerable danger of serious kidney infection...
Grapefruit Juice. Fresh, unsweetened grapefruit juice was put on sale by Golden Gift Inc., of De Land, Fla., following the success of its fresh orange juice. Now marketed in New York only, it will soon be sold nationally. Price: around 30 cents per quart...
...Beer drinkers who have always argued that their favorite beverage is a "food" and full of health-giving nutrients found academically respectable confirmation in a book by German Physiologist Wilhelm Stepp. A quart of beer from his area, said Dr. Stepp, contains at least a man's daily requirements of several B vitamins, plus phosphorus and amino acids. Dr. Stepp practices in Munich...
Price: one quart...
...frozen orange juice. A new process developed by Golden Gift, Inc., De Land, Fla., bombards the fresh juice with ultraviolet rays to halt bacteria and enzyme growth without adding preservatives, keeps orange juice fresh, with vitamin C content unchanged, up to two weeks in household refrigerators. Price: 35? a quart...