Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Overlapping Life. Their new life has not been easy. "We can't overindulge in alcohol, for obvious reasons; we can't haunt night clubs that feature sensational dance lines and limited apparel (usually stimulating to a man, they would be even more so to a man living as a 'brother'). We try to limit and strongly curtail our association with the 'sophisticated' set who enjoy the more worldly plays and movies and delight in passing on a somewhat spicy story . . . You can't maintain a close relationship with a quantity of cocktails behind...
...moderate doses, alcohol narcotizes the appestat and enhances appetite (the original reason for the cocktail); but because liquor has a high caloric value-100 calories per oz.-the heavy drinker is seldom hungry. In rare cases, diseases such as encephalitis or a pituitary tumor may damage the appestat permanently, destroying nearly all sense of satiety...
...undue emphasis on food: conversations center on it, and rich delicacies are offered as rewards, withheld as punishment. The result says Jolliffe: "The child gains the feeling that food is the purpose of life." Food may act as a sedative, giving temporary emotional solace, just as, for some people, alcohol does. Reports Dr. Keys: "A fairly common experience for us is the wife who finds her husband staying out more and more. He may be interested in another woman, or just like being with the boys. So she fishes around in the cupboard and hauls out a chocolate cake...
Cholesterol, the cornerstone of Dr. Keys's theory, is a mysterious yellowish, waxy substance, chemically a crystalline alcohol. Scientists assume that cholesterol (from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and stereos, meaning solid) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight. They know it is the chief ingredient in gallstones. They suspect it plays a role in the production of adrenal hormones, and they believe it is essential to the transport of fats throughout the circulatory system. But they cannot fully explain the process...
...kept a big bag of dried apricots beside his dormitory bed. That spring, embittered by his failure to capture the chemistry department's sole scholarship, Keys signed on as an oiler aboard the President Wilson, bound for China, and quickly dispensed with nutritional niceties. "The diet was mainly alcohol," he says. "I don't remember eating anything." Back again at Cal, Keys switched to economics, graduated in two years, went to work for Woolworth, quit in boredom after eight months and returned to the university...