Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Bernard Shaw, who watches his diet, went a thoughtful tribute from Literary Heavyweight Gene Tunney, who also watches his: a shipment of nuts, apples, pineapples, dates...
Last week's discussions were informal and preliminary. No one knows exactly what makes the circulation go haywire. Heredity has something to do with it. So does diet. Emotional strain helps to bring the condition on. Arteriosclerosis seems to be connected somehow with cholesterol, a fat substance found in foods. Experimenters have produced hardening of the arteries in animals by feeding them concentrated cholesterol...
Undernourished people seldom have high blood pressure. The guilty items in the diet are fats and animal proteins. "After 50," Dr. Fishberg says, "a man is better off if he does not have too much money or rich food...
...more major production, coming the first week in May, is planned by the Dramatic Club for this term. A work by a European author will be performed, to balance the year's diet, which has been confined to American works thus far. The HDC Reading Theater presentations will complete the Club's schedule...
...method, alas! is beyond the reach of the world's hungry hordes"). Another, Bhaduri Mahasaya ("The Levitating Saint"), often hung in the air, meditating without visible means of support. Another, called Krishnananda, shared his hermitage with a lioness, which he had taught to appreciate a strictly vegetarian diet and to utter the mystical word "Aum" (meaning "cosmic vibratory power") "in a deep, attractive growl...