Word: digest
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...evil spirits. Colombian Indians refuse to drink reconstituted milk and use it instead to paint their huts. On the Navajo reservation, many Indians discard Government-issue powdered milk rather than suffer diarrhea. All have a problem in common. A surprisingly large portion of the world's population cannot digest an important ingredient in milk: lactose...
Response to a Challenge. Why can virtually all infants and many adults digest lactose, while other adults cannot? One theory is that the ability to produce lactase, and thus to digest lactose, is the response to a challenge: if a person continues to drink milk after he has been weaned and through adulthood, he will always be able to digest it. But if he goes without milk for months or years, he loses that ability...
Enzymes are aptly called the mediators of life. Without these essential proteins, vital chemical reactions would occur far too slowly, if at all. Living things could not grow, digest food, store energy, transmit messages across nerve cells or reproduce. Like laboratory or industrial catalysts, enzymes trigger and speed up chemical reactions without themselves being affected or altered by them. But enzymes can cause these reactions to take place up to a billion times faster than catalysts used in the laboratory or chemical plant...
...kids with nothing to do and nothing to lose, who also hate America. Think about it. What do they have to lose by going to jail? Or, what does a speed freak really have to lose even by getting killed? Hippie is dead. Everybody knows that except Reader's Digest. But what that means is that kids who just a couple of years ago said Peace and Love Baby and put flowers in soldiers' rifles, now say off the pig and mean...
...Vietnamese died, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that died. By now over a million Vietnamese have been killed and probably 80 thousand Americans. If all of us felt even a little bit of that in our stomachs, not even all of America could digest that much sorrow...