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...much to their surprise, Lynda did. "It was just too ingenious," she explained. "I just had to come." Then she indulged in an hour's small talk. "Several people at the camp have burns, and we were trying to find vinegar in the supplies to ease them. But the vinegar was already mixed with the herbs for salad dressing. Are you people really drinking this water? I don't even like to swim in it, it's so buggy...
Across the table from us a young man with a straggly, pointed heard was explaining the crucifixion. "Christ was in an extremely yang condition after carrying the cross up the hill. While he was nailed to it--which made him more yang--his disciples gave him vinegar on a reed. Vinegar is very yin, and it paralyzed his nervous system, which is also, yin. He got even more yin when they placed him in a damp cave. The paralysis didn't wear off for three days...
There were reports that coach Bob Blackman went home and cried for three days and then put on sackcloth and ashes There were reports that the football team got only coals and vinegar at the Dartmouth training table for the next week...
...conclusion that the best neutralizer for excess stomach acid is nature's neutralizer-food. They prescribe small meals about every three hours. It matters little, they say, what the ulcer patient eats-he may have steak and French fries with catchup and a cucumber salad with vinegar dressing-provided only that he eats a little at a time and often. The tide has turned against the insipid Sippy diet of milk and light cream: doctors are beginning to find that for some ulcer patients this "cure" is worse than the disease-like bicarb it throws them far enough over...
Stare decried quack contentions "about calories not counting, the therapeutic benefits of honey and vinegar... the wonders of natural foods and those fertilized organically, and of course, the nutritional nonsense over the radio and TV from people with no professional training in nutrition or any other area of health...