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3 unusual facts about dyspepsia


Appetite

Dyspepsia, also known as indigestion, can also affect appetite as one of its symptoms is feeling "overly full" soon after beginning a meal.

Gold Diggers of 1935

During production a chorus dancer, Jack Grieves, died on the set due to acute indigestion.

Vogon

Through sheer obstinacy, though, the Vogons survived (partly by adapting a misplaced, badly malformed, and dyspeptic liver into a brain).


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Red bean paste

In Natsume Sōseki's classic novel I Am a Cat, Prof. Sneeze is addicted to red bean jam, on which his wife blames both his dyspepsia and the family's unaffordable food bills.


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