Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat to healthy gourmets, the new diet has three medical uses...
...contains no protein, doctors can use it to diagnose food allergy. If an allergic patient gets well on the diet, a food protein is almost certainly his allergen...
Among scientific threats to human happiness has long lurked the possibility that somebody would take all the joy out of eating by evolving a diet of pure chemicals. Last week three St. Louis doctors, headed by William Harwood Olmsted, announced that they had done it. The mixture, they admit, is so nasty it has to be given by stomach tube...
...trouble is that imprisonment goes on too long, "breeds a dreadful staleness" while "an exclusively male community seems to lack emotional drive and spontaneity." Prisoners are always hungry: there is never enough to eat, although light diet makes for fitness, up to a point. Red Cross parcels are lifesavers but monotonous. The total lack of privacy makes a man develop "a kind of reptilian insensitiveness-like crocodiles in their tank at the Zoo, which walk over each other without either appearing to notice the other...
...again last week. The scene of the tragedy was New London, Conn.'s Lawrence & Memorial Associated Hospitals. This time it was a woman pharmacist, who mistook boric acid for dextrose (the crystals look much alike) in filling some bottles with babies' formulas. Result of a four-day diet of boric acid to 23 babies: four dead, several others sick, the pharmacist in bed with nervous collapse...