Making candy with enzymes

Candy Medication

The candy prophylactic: danger, disease, and children's candy around 1916.

By 1916, America had firmly established its international reputation as ‘‘a great candy eating nation’’ (‘‘Brooklyn Leads’’ 1). American candy consumption was by some estimates approaching half a pound per week per person; if that was an average, there were many eating significantly more (‘‘Pure Candy’’). Children, too, in the early decades of the twentieth century were buying and eating candy ...

Making Sense of Digestive Enzymes

Enzymes are functional proteins essential to all living systems. In humans, enzymes act as catalysts for numerous chemical reactions including the digestion of dietary macronutrients. In the early part of the twentieth century, use of supplemental digestive enzymes was proposed as a means of compensating for the loss of enzyme activity in modern diets. As with the loss of micronutrients like vi...

Beyond “eye-candy”: improving learning with animations

The use of animations is becoming increasingly widespread in electronic learning materials. Authoring animations is now relatively straightforward, even for university teachers without advanced computing skills. Many lecturers want to know how to convert the traditional static pictures and diagrams in textbooks into instructionally effective animated presentations. This presentation will show h...

Candy cocaine esophagus.

Reversible thermal injury to the esophagus from drinking boiling-hot liquids has been reported to produce alternating pink and white linear bands that impart a "candy-cane" appearance to the inner esophageal wall. This injury has been associated with chest pain, dysphagia, odynophagia, and abdominal pain. We describe a case of candy-cane esophagus caused by thermal injury from smoking freebase ...