A3   Food - hygiene - health system

        (also: A human lifespan - from its beginning to its end)

by Martin and Christoffer

Food

            altered food:

                        -magnesium salted almonds (p.233, l.34)

                        -carotine sandwich (p.158, ll.22-23)

                        -vitamin A paté (p.158, ll.22-23)

                        -sex-hormone chewing gum (p.148, l.28)

                        -champagne surrogate (p.158, ll.22-23)

            food:

                        -peanuts (p.233, ll.2-3)

                        -petits beurres (p.233, ll.2-3)

Hygiene

            -hypnopaedic lessons in hygiene (p.133, l.1)

            -huge bathrooms at the Hatching Center (p.31, ll.30-34)

            -blower with talcum powder (p.32, ll.24-33)

            ->whole body treated with talcum

            -massages by “vibro-vacuum massage machines” (p.33, ll.17-20)

            ->makes you look like a “pink glowing pearl”

            -“electrolytic shave” (pp.128-129, ll.34-1)

The author's background: England 1930

            -no health insurance

            -mainly private hospitals

            -voluntary hospitals (pay as much as you can)

            =>no medical care for poor people

            -NHS (National Health Service) founded in 1948

            ->state hospitals, pay only for medication

            -it was discovered that vitamins cured deficiency diseases like scurvy

            -no one imagined that vitamins had another use (free radicals)

Decanting

            -usually with wine: carefully pouring the wine from its bottle into a carafe
            ->separating the wine from the sediment

            -here: to remove the babies from the bottles they were bred in