Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small but Healthy. A British team headed by Cambridge University's Nutrition Expert R. A. McCance had made a searching study of some typical children in the British zone of Germany. The youngsters, living on a subnormal diet of cereals and vegetables, with almost no meat or milk, were shockingly small for their ages. But they seemed to be in excellent health. They were remarkably free from disease, showed no sign of rickets or vitamin deficiencies, played games as hard and spiritedly as U.S. children. The investigators concluded that the youngsters had adjusted to the reduced diet by developing...
Hard-boiled and well-fed economists might contend that the British were wrong to spend so much money on food and tobacco. But even with the dollar food purchases, the British diet had remained on the thin line that divides discomfort from malnutrition. If British workers had eaten less in the last year they probably would have produced less...
...hero of The Age of Reason keeps low company, often talks in unprintable expletives, believes supremely in his own powers of action. But Popeye grows strong on spinach; Sartre's characters in The Age of Reason feed on a pasty mixture of atheism and bad gin. The diet symbolizes existentialism's greatest weakness: the futility of attempting moral regeneration through a philosophy which denies religion or any ethical code...
Specialists have realized for some time that such heart patients do poorly on a normal diet, and need as little salt as possible. A diuretic, to help the patients get rid of water, is also a standard treatment. But Drs. Burch and Reasor showed that the big problem is to get rid of sodium rather than water. For that purpose, a mercurial diuretic is best; it carries off excess sodium in urine...
...Zimmerman and associates cautioned that there are limits to what glutamic acid can do: e.g., patients improve rapidly during the first six months but approach an I.Q. ceiling by the end of a year; if they quit the glutamic acid diet, they begin to backslide mentally. A still unanswered question: Would the treatment improve the intelligence of normal children or grownups...