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Inflammatory Cascade

a: Inflammatory cascade ~
b: a small brush fire

What: "This inflammatory cascade is like a small brush fire. If you do not snuff it out quickly it will eventually flare up to a major blaze"........

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Writer: icehorse
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Aug 13 2010 2:17 AM


Food With A Low Glycemic Index

a: Food with a low glycemic index ~
b: putting a log of hard wood in the fire

What: "Eating food with a low glycemic index is like putting a log of hard wood in the fire, it burns for hours, instead of paper and cardboard (refined sugar) where you have to keep on feeding and feeding the fire to keep warm unless it dies." >-------->> This is a great analogy for those who don't have any background in chemistry.

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Writer: LAGREBE
LCC: QP
Where:
Date: Nov 27 2010 5:32 AM


Austin As Oil In Water?

a: Austin ~
b: island of something

What: "Austin is like an island of something in a sea of something else."

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Writer: Paul Sherman
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Date: May 9 2012 9:42 AM


Something Not This Or That......

a: Archaea ~
b: bacteria(size shape)

What: "Archaea are like bacteria(in terms of size and shape) but they are like eukaryotes, in that their DNA is wrapped in proteins, histones. There are the evolutionary missing link.

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Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Apr 30 2013 1:10 PM



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