Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a History. About 80% of all ulcers respond to medical treatment-e.g., a mild, unstimulating diet-and a change to a less exacting job. The remaining 20% may be relieved by removal of ulcerated sections of the stomach or intestines, but often new ulcers break out after the operation. All the vagotomy cases were in this stubborn group...
...feather them and burn their homes. Over 4,000 had gone to jail for refusing either to serve in the armed forces or to be classified as conscientious objectors; Witnesses claimed they were all ministers of the gospel. But the Witnesses had thrived and multiplied a bit on a diet of rough treatment...
...North, it was the bears. From their deserted mountain regions they were drifting down toward forests and villages, killing cattle and even attacking humans. Declared Dr. Nils Dahlbeck, a Swedish bear expert: "They are reclaiming their former habitat. Also, they find populated areas more profitable for variety in diet." Chief victims were the Lapps who experimented for centuries with anti-bear measures. Sample: put brännvin (brandy) under juniper bushes and get the bears drunk...
Asahi has 26 photographers, keeps six reporters at Tokyo police headquarters, sends a task force of 40 to cover a session of the Japanese Diet. About one-fourth of Asahi's reporters sometimes go a week at a time without breaking into print. Even so, Asahi thinks it needs more reporters for the day paper gets more plentiful, has scheduled September exams to pick them...
Spies, with associates at San Juan's School of Tropical Medicine, thinks that the efficacy of folic acid also proves decisively that sprue (symptoms: diarrhea, mouth sores, lassitude) is a result of poor diet rather than a contagious disease, as some doctors have insisted. Folic acid, Spies announced earlier this year in the A.M.A. Journal, is also a remedy for all but a few rare kinds of anemia, causing red blood cells to pour into the blood in striking numbers...