Our human body : its wonders and its care by The Reader's digest

Author:The Reader's digest
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Anatomie Biologie Corps Femme Grossesse Homme Humain
Publisher: Pleasantville, NY : Reader's digest Association
Published: 1962-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

Meanwhile, what is to be done about the million Americans who have diabetes and are ignorant of the fact? The American Diabetes Association hopes to find them—through publicity and with the aid of general practitioners in many communities. Through its affiliate associations or county or local medical societies, a urine-sugar test often is offered free of charge to anyone.

In its current search for diabetic unknowns, the association emphasizes one cardinal precept: Have a blood-sugar test made (i) if you are over forty and overweight, (2) if any one ot your ancestors ever had diabetes.

Your Long-Suffering Colon

by William Harley Glqfke, M.D.

ryyhe public spends over a hundred million dollars a year for laxatives. More of these drugs are bought than of any other home medicaments.

Possibly custom explains much of this large expenditure. Considering digestive waste as unclean, it is easy to reason (quite wrongly) that if it remains in the colon it will poison us. Nothing seems more logical, then, than to "clear out the system," to "get rid of the poison" that seemingly causes our dizzy feeling, poor appetite or "dopiness." So the poor old colon has been needlessly

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