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Bananas & Diarrhea, There is a stubborn, debilitating form of diarrhea called celiac disease. It is most common in children under 5. They cannot digest sugars, starches or fats. Dr. Sidney Valentine Haas of Manhattan found that ripe bananas, for some not fully understood reason, have the power to break up starches and convert cane sugar into more easily tolerated fruit sugar. With carbohydrate (sugar, starch) assimilation taken care of, digestion of fats takes care of itself. Ripe bananas contain all the essential vitamins, except bone-forming D. For times & places where ripe bananas are not available, there are now available...
...president of the Chamber of Commerce rose up last week from a 50? chair, clapped his hands and yelled. So did the Mayor and the owner of the Muehlebach Hotel and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank and a starch tycoon. Four thousand other Kansas Cityzens clapped as loudly, although the seats they rose from cost half as much-many of them as little as 10?. Result of all their yelling was that Chamber President Conrad H. Mann was able...
...than Penick & Ford. Last year it earned $14,067,000 against $16,309,000 in 1929. Its total assets come to $127,393,000 against Penick & Ford's $14,097,000. Some 9,000 people own its common stock. Corn Product's best known brands include Argo starch, Mazola oil, Karo syrup, Linit starch, Cerelose sugar, Kremel pudding powder. Since Father Bedford was believed to be one of its largest shareholders, Son Bedford may find himself in the strange position of having a more valuable investment in Corn Products than in his own company...
...three new sugars at the U. S. Bureau of Standards last week was a little triumph. He found the new sugars in inulin, a starchlike ingredient of certain roots, in the course of the Bureau's researches to establish an inulin-sugar industry for the U. S. When starch is boiled in water and otherwise suitably treated it breaks down into glucose, or grape sugar.* When inulin is handled similarly, fructose, or fruit sugar, is the chief result...
...Animals" muscles and livers contain an animal starch which breaks down also into plucosc. The glucose supplies energy for work...