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...comes indigestion. But sometimes what passes for a stomachache can be something far more serious: gastro-esophageal reflux disease, or GERD. Well known to adults as heartburn, this disorder of the stomach and esophagus can also strike children, especially if they eat large quantities of chocolate, peppermint or spearmint candies. These treats tend to open up the valve between the esophagus and the stomach and allow food mixed with acid to pass back into the food pipe, causing the uncomfortable burning sensation in the chest that gives heartburn its name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Goblins Go Owwww | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...further” and “farther,” it was exciting to make use of the former.) Below are a few things that are sort of metaphysical, although I think what you want are facts. But here goes: Why we need peppermint and spearmint and wintermint and whatever else, as they all taste pretty much the same. If God really exists. If psychics really work. Why James Joyce was ever published. If several countries are in Asia or Europe or Africa. It’s vague. Like Egypt and Morocco. Associated with both the Middle East...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: What Harvard Doesn't Know | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...dominant theme is relaxation. A peppermint and spearmint eye mask lies on the shelf and the sound of trickling water can be heard from a miniature artificial waterfall. A card on top of the book shelf reads, “Take time every day to sit still and listen...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather House Opens 'Tranquility Room' | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air--some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries, another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships to make room for later-arriving choppers. For many Americans, it was like a death--long been expected but shocking when it finally happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1973-1980 Limits | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Sizing can be problematic, and that "spearmint tee" may not exactly match your "copper jelly slide." The "J. Crew guarantee" means the company will accept an exchange or refund "at any time and for any reason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of Spearmint Wishes And Apricot Dreams | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

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