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Among about a dozen factories bombed by Israel was the country's largest dairy plant, Liban Lait, which produces yogurt and cheese under license from France's Groupe Danone, and a large tissue-producing factory owned by a Palestinian Christian who lives in Jordan.
Thursday, August 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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It is true, some kinds of food such as alcohol, tea and coffee, and perhaps some others do not require to go farther than the blood to be burned, but these are mainly heat-producing, and not tissue-producing substances.
Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology William Alexander Hammond 1864
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For example: "Phrenological development; size of cells; ounces of solid and liquid; tissue-producing food; were mirrors allowed? if so, what was the effect? jimmy and skeleton-key, character of; canary birds: query, would not their admission into every cell animate in the human prisoners a similar buoyancy? to urge upon the turnkeys the use of the Spanish garrote in place of the present distressing gallows; to find the proportion of Orthodox and Unitarian prisoners to those of other persuasions."
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"The distinctness of these groups of foods," says Dr. Hunt, "and their relations to the tissue-producing and heat-evolving capacities of man, are so definite and so confirmed by experiments on animals and by manifold tests of scientific, physiological and clinical experience, that no attempt to discard the classification has prevailed.
Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink 1847
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