Word: liverence
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...Early in his research Dr. Bloch learned that most of the cholesterol in the bodies of both animals and men comes not from cholesterol in food (though butterfat, egg yolks and meat fats contain much of it) but from built-in cholesterol factories. These factories are mainly in the liver, but many of the body's other cells can make some cholesterol. To discover how they do it, Dr. Bloch had to go back to the biochemical beginning...
...shall not bother you with symptoms, except to say that I am now having recurrent liver trouble, plus pretty nearly all the other afflictions normal for a 53-year-old man in a tired, rundown condition. My doctor says, in effect, that I am like the One Hoss Shay just prior to its famous last journey-still able to take the road, but unless immediately repaired, quite likely to come apart for good...
...circulatory diseases, including strokes, which accounted for 55% of the nearly 2,000,000 deaths in 1962. The second-place killer is cancer (16%). The other major causes of death: accidents (6%), diseases in the newborn (4%), influenza and pneumonia (3%), diabetes (2%), congenital malformations (1%), cirrhosis of the liver (1%) and suicide...
...hale and hearty, there will be pushbutton meals. How about chicken liver pâté, followed by salmon mousse, whipped potatoes and a vegetable purée with hollandaise sauce? For dessert: a zabaglione worthy of the finest chef. Seconds, anyone? sssss...
...shagging center fielder who unwittingly broke open the mess, admitted helping throw the World Series to Cincinnati when he fell for a reporter's "all-the-others-have-confessed" ruse and angrily blurted: "Why those wise guys! At least I already have my $5,000"; of a liver ailment; in Milwaukee...