Word: diet
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...exercise. This arrangement would leave two hours for dinner and amusement until 8 o'clock, the hours from 8 to 10 being profitably employed in further work. The hour for retiring was named as 10 o'clock. He laid great stress on both regularity of method and simplicity of diet...
Matters of diet, exercise and general training, too, are much less carefully guarded than in America. There can be no doubt according to Mr. Corbin, that our system puts too great a strain on one set of nerves and muscles, in such sports as running, at least; a fact which results in staleness long before the body as a whole reaches its highest condition. "Still," he continues, "as far as results are concerned our methods, taken by and large, are undoubtedly better. Mr. Horan, president of the Cambridge team that ran against Yale in 1895, made a careful study...
...Lecture on Hygiene. III. The Relation of Diet and Habits in general to Health and Good Work. Dr. M. H. Bailey, Medical Visitor. Sever...
...explanation. The gentleman who wrote the communication yesterday was greatly mistaken when he thought the unfortunate student in question ate sufficient food. Among the waiters at Randall Hall it was often remarked that this student ate the least of any man in the Hall, and that means that his diet was absurdly light and insufficient...
...same table at Randall Hall, with the gentleman referred to, and knew him slightly, I can certainly say that this article is mostly one of rank falsehood. He may have had vegetarian notions about diet, but his illness was most certainly not brought on by lack of good food, in any sense of the word. He was a bright clever fellow and never showed any peculiarities in manner or dress. It is a shame that publicity has been made of his slight breakdown in health, an occurrence that is by no means uncommon to a comparatively large percentage...