Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balanced Diet. In Mannheim, Germany, after a carnival owner reported the loss of "the only pigs in the world that could walk a tight-rope on their hind legs," military police got a hot clue: Polish guards had dined on pork chops...
...Shidzue Kato, the most prominent of Japan's 38 new women Diet members, called the trend "wonderful." A divorcee herself, she said: "Japanese women are now getting away from the subservient idea of hanging onto a man whether they like him or not. In all civilized nations, divorce rates are high...
...everything about the trip had been wonderful. WACs and Army nurses prepared baby formulas in a special diet kitchen. There were play pens, toys for older children, and a four-room section set aside for teen-age boys. The first meal was a whopping lunch which bore no relation to Army food...
Britons had seen no onions for five months. Each got one shell egg a week (wartime powdered eggs have disappeared from the British diet). A pineapple cost $30. Yet a girl from France visiting London called it "paradise" because "they have enough to eat and in France we haven't." The French got 10 oz. of bread a day, 20 oz. of fat and 18 oz. of sugar a month. This was supplemented by a little meat, fish and vegetables...
...eliminated desserts twice a week. But more should be possible here, where students are allotted 4200 calories per day compared to the 3500 calories established by dietitians as the daily requirement for the active man. Even the lower figure seems gluttonous beside the UNRRA's 1500 ealory minimum diet, which is still an ideal for many Europeans. Even casual reflection on these facts should prod the well-fed conscience to back the Council committee's efforts...