Word: stomachable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figure lies motionless on a second-hand red sofa, stomach down and almost totally obscured by a mass of towels, heat pads and sweatpants. He looks more like a mummy than the Harvard cross-country captain, but a rustle of movement and then a groggy head rising from beneath the heap of cotton reveals his identity. It is Stein Rafto, standing up in pain to lead the Crimson cross country team on a long early morning...
...weakest. John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is 77 and too exhausted to lead the forces for the Panama Canal Treaty, which would relinquish control of the waterway to Panama by the year 2000. Other members of the committee may also not have the stomach for the fight...
...University of Toronto, consists of those parts of edible plants that are resistant to the human digestive enzymes, so that they pass through the system virtually unchanged until they encounter bacteria in the large bowel. There are three basic kinds of fiber. The simplest is cellulose; the four-chambered stomach of cattle can readily digest this form, but the single human stomach cannot. Next comes a group of polysaccharides, consisting of complex sugar chains. The third type is lignin, which not even intestinal bacteria can degrade. Fiber of any kind provides little caloric nourishment; its main value is in absorbing...
...most cases, what the average victim calls his "stomach ulcer" is actually located in the duodenum, the next lower chamber in the digestive tract. Traditional methods of treating ulcers have been of limited value: antacids, whether recommended by the doctor or the TV set, give only short-term relief, and some (notably that old stand-by bicarbonate) may cause harmful side effects. Bland diets-baby food and milk and cream-are unbalanced and unsatisfying. Antispasmodic drugs are of dubious value and have serious side effects. Surgery to cut out part of the stomach or sever the nerves that govern...
...histamine. The familiar site, associated with hay fever and other allergies, is in the nasal passages and nearby tissues. These conditions can be treated with a variety of widely prescribed antihistamines. But the drugs have no effect on the histamine receptors in the cells that secrete acid into the stomach...