Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy. Supplies averaging about 15,000 tons monthly are arriving in Italy-to supplement the deficient diet of 2,000,000 mothers and children. The program is operated by 200 UNRRA workers...
...rule, eight to ten nurses are working in the diet kitchen on this compound, whereas one nurse-dietitian could be used plus capable WAVES or civilians to do the work that we are now doing...
...been spent for research in the war against germs, they could do something about physical degeneration too. Chicago's Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer drew a moral in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "Prevention of chronic [degenerative] illness begins with . . . proper personal hygiene, right living and suitable diet ... an annual physical examination...
Buchenwald did not have a diet, really. There was a form of soup once a day and some bread. The amount doesn't matter; it was not enough to sustain life. I saw hundreds of Buchenwald's 21,000 (there had been 48,000 but more than half had been evacuated to the interior of Germany) who were as starved as the corpses in the crematorium yard. You cannot adequately describe starved men; they just look awful and unnatural. There was nothing but their bones beneath the tightly stretched skin, none of the roundedness, the curving...
...summer, the catch drops off when adult fish change their diet from elusive one-year-olds to easy-to-catch newborns. (Most game fish are cannibals.) With full bellies and plenty more where that came from, they are not much interested in hunting around for plugs, spoons and spinners...