Hysterical Gas

Mabel (not her real name) told me her "stomach" (abdomen) expanded four inches a few minutes after eating a single mouthful of food. I said (believing it at the time), "That's physiologically impossible. Food takes at least an hour to exit your stomach, and it takes more than a mouthful to expand... Read More

Tight-Lacing

Tight-lacing can literally cut your liver in half. "Don't Fence Me In" is your liver's theme song. <> Charles Murchison, M.D. (Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Liver, 1877) wrote ... "Apparent enlargements of the liver from tight-lacing are far more common than is generally believed.... Read More

Clydesdale-Class Grass

Q — With all due respect to Atom Bergstrom, his claim that wheat grass juice could cause yellow fat disease, is completely incorrect, and it does not look good on him. Wheat grass juice is mostly water, so even if one drank a bucket of wheat grass juice, hardly any fat and omega 3 will be ingested... Read More

Walrus Versus Whaleboat

Walrus livers and kidneys were Eskimo delicacies, but walrus hunting was dangerous business. Walruses are peaceful and sociable unless you mess with them. <> A polar bear would kill a walrus on land, but a walrus would kill a polar bear in the water. A polar bear can swim for days, dog-p... Read More