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...This probably sounds like sour grapes, but the last goal they got was offside by about ten feet," said head coach Bruce Munro. "It took the starch...
Hunt-Wesson's line was also enriched with profitable new convenience brands. One big seller is the Snackpack pudding, concocted of such ingredients as food starch, artificial color, artificial flavor and preservatives BHT and BHA. In all, N.S.I.'s sales in the past four years went from $940 million to $1.2 billion, and its earnings climbed by 85%, to $50.5 million. Says Mahoney: "Most companies are satisfied if they do not lose, but I was always...
Does Mr. Heldt remember the days (not too long ago) when the bulk of our population lived on farms and in rural areas? At the end of the long winter our systems were so loaded with the effects of white sugar, starch and saturated fat that a spring tonic of sulfur and molasses was considered advisable, if not mandatory. The all-out consumption of doughnuts, fritters, dumplings, cake, pie and white-sugar candy, was that organic...
...Since surgeons first discovered that talc, a finely powdered mineral, could be toxic, they have stopped using it on the skintight rubber gloves they wear while performing operations. Now, according to the Lancet, there are indications that the starch used as a substitute may also be unsafe, leading to a potentially dangerous postoperative condition called "starch peritonitis." The condition, which develops anywhere from ten to 40 days after surgery and produces fever, cramping and abdominal pain, was first believed by doctors to be the result of intestinal obstructions. But those who reoperated discovered no blockages but pearly white nodules...
This emerging pride in being black was reflected in changes in the life-style of Hakim and other cons at Jeff City. "They feed a lot of starch and pork in prison. Now anybody that knows anything about diet knows what that does to your body. So we began to educate the brothers about diet so that the brothers was walking past the pork chops. The man couldn't relate to that because it used to be a time brothers used to steal pork chops. But now they was walking past the pork chops and stealing the hamburgers, you know...