Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Response to Diet. The offending molecules occurred in every patient with an underactive thyroid, and in more than 90% of those with high blood pressure or coronary insufficiency. Perhaps even more significant for the future: more than half of the men and a third of the women with no known disease of the heart or arteries showed high levels of Sf 10-20 molecules. These people, Dr. Gofman suggested, may be those who, in time, will develop atherosclerosis...
Radioactive fading, explain the doctors, slows down the tempo of the body by reducing the amount of thyroxin secreted from the thyroid gland. The work load on the heart is thus reduced...
...able to remember that "Horsefeathers" is the one in which Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo careen through Huxley College in a garbage-wagon chariot, among other conveyances. In "Monkey Business' the Marx boys plague the captain, crew, and passengers of an ocean liner like four hyper-thyroid Nemeses. But plots count for nothing when the Marx Brothers are around. In fact, everything counts for nothing--except unending hysterical laughter--when the Marx Brothers are around...