Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change of diet has been a bit too strenuous for our young son Jerry and he has been eating some of the baby's food by way of relief. Therefore, her supplies are diminishing alarmingly. I am most anxious for the baby's food to get off right away. If she had to go a day without the right food, we would all end up in the insane asylum. She is an angel with a temper that pierces eardrums, raises roofs, blasts buildings...
...morning, some 30 barefooted, play-suited wives and daughters of Senators and Representatives answered the roll at the Congressional Club. They listened to a short health and diet talk by Mrs. Lodge, then followed her, in their various ways, through a strenuous hour of health dancing. They had been doing the same thing every Wednesday ever since Feb. 19. Said Mrs. Lodge delightedly...
...After laboriously feeding young white rats a diet of ham & eggs, the Department of Agriculture arrived at a heartening conclusion: ham & eggs are a good combination, scientifically. Their proteins supplement each other so well that when eaten together they supply more nourishment than when eaten separately...
...Mozart and Beethoven symphonies and concertos still form the staples of his musical diet," says Crimson Network classical musical director Robert Hall '49, "but the student is developing a tendency to break away from well-known works to explore the less familiar vistas of chamber music and the works of modernists." According to Hall, the trend would never be stomached elsewhere. "At Yale, for instance," he says, "they have re-saddled the old warhorses--Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikowsky--and are riding them almost exclusively...
...tooth-decay preventive, Jay is experimenting with a six-weeks diet (starting with no sugar or carbohydrates and gradually increasing the allowance) which seems to discourage the enamel-eating lactobacilli for six months to two years afterward. (Jay guesses that a sugarless diet may encourage the growth of germs that fight lactobacilli.) The best recipe for good teeth: drink fluorine-containing water in childhood (TIME, April 24, 1944). If fluorine, which lactobacilli detest, is introduced into the enamel while the teeth are being formed, the teeth get permanent protection...