Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mohandas K. Gandhi, 75, revealed the formula by which he plans to live for another 50 years: plenty of humor, a balanced diet, early to bed & early to rise, no stimulants, "a brake upon impetuosity," resignation to the will...
...world, only North Americans had a general diet level well above nutritional needs.* In all the world, only North Americans ate more food in wartime than before the war. This last was such an uncomfortably conspicuous fact in world politics that 1) Canada talked of resuming meat rationing although Canadians knew it would not reduce consumption significantly, and 2) one group of U.S. Administration leaders wanted a drastically reduced civilian food supply, although they knew it would raise howls from U.S. consumers who have looked to V-E day for relaxed rationing, not further cuts...
...nearly 4,000 calories (double the 2,000 held necessary for health), including five times as much meat as the twelve ounces a week allowed British civilians. U.S. civilians, who before the war averaged a little over 3,100, now eat about 3,300 calories of the best-balanced diet in the world. Canadians are eating about 3,200 calories a day. French city-dwellers get about 1,300. The British are now up to about 2,900, but their diet is badly balanced and lacks variation. The Germans have had slightly less (but better balanced); the Russians, about...
...lords, disdaining whatever war-weariness might have come to industrialists whose factories were gutted and to civilians whose paper-&-bamboo homes were obliterated, had by no means had enough. Premier Koiso and his fanatical War Minister, Field Marshal. Gen Sugijama, drafted another emergency measure, pushed it through another emergency Diet. It ordered...
Some microbes have done double jobs. One, fed in a certain way, yields oxalic acid, basic chemical of the blueprint industry; on a different diet it produces the gluconic acid used in medicines. The versatile Clostridium acetobutylicum, on a single diet of corn mash, produces acetone for solvents, butanol for automobile lacquers, and riboflavin (Vitamin...