Word: sugars
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Sheley's menu displays some ingenious slimming down. A typical meal of a vegetarian pita-bread sandwich ($1.49), baked potato (990) and sugar-free soft drink (550) contains 431 calories. Even the cheeseburgers are lightweights, comprising a bun with 25% fewer calories, low-fat hamburger patties and diet cheese. Other offerings include salads (with low-cal dressing), soup, frozen yogurt, cheese-covered potato skins, and light beer. The company's slogan consciously echoes the advertising for Miller Lite: "More of a good thing. And less...
...datura, a plant known to Haitians as zombie cucumber. Datura, says Davis, is "one of the most potent hallucinogenic plants known." Thus the zombie is led away in a state of intoxication, usually to work as a slave. Narcisse, who spent several years as a slave on a sugar plantation, reports that zombies do not make very good workers. Says he: "The slightest chore required great effort." He reports that his senses were so distorted that the smallest stream seemed a wide and unfordable sea, as though "my eyes were turned...
...list of holdouts grew smaller and smaller. Cuba, with no ready cash, dispatched its team on a boat loaded with sugar and tobacco; at each port of call, the cargo would be auctioned off to help defray expenses. Even Germany managed to outwit its future Fuhrer and sent 125 of its best young athletes...
Diabetes is a disease which hinders the normal processing of glucose in the blood. Insulin controls the level of blood sugar and enables many people to live with the disease...
Because subjects tend to suffer low blood-sugar concentrations after the experiment is through they eat a free carbohydrate-rich lunch and receive a stipend of $40, Silver said...