Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diet of the average Bolivian worker falls far below the standards commonly considered necessary for good health...
...change of diet," said snow-bearded Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw of the meat shortage, "will do Americans good. They eat far too much of meat and everything else. I must say it's very kind of them, but I wish Americans would stop sending me parcels of food. Apparently they're all under the impression that we are starving in this country." Meat rationing in Britain he found "fine . . . fine, but it doesn't go far enough. I'd abolish meat altogether. It's true no doubt that beef made Old England what...
Underfeeding sows (a common practice in the last part of pregnancy) may result in piglets which die of "baby pig disease" (shortage of blood sugar) or scours. And many farmers forget that "a sow must be fed for milk production to insure strong, thrifty pigs." Her diet must include protein, minerals, vitamins. To provide the farrow with enough copper and iron, a preparation may be placed on the sow's udder, or clean, parasite-free sod or soil placed...
...wine a day, two to six dozen eggs a week. To be certain of enough fresh eggs, he left his family a few years ago to start a chicken farm. The strange eczema-like rash, which had grown redder and flakier for five years, soon faded on hospital diet, but the patient was still sick with other ailments unconnected with egg white - a urinary tract infection, chronic bronchitis, heart disease, cancer...
...fantastic patient's condition ran contrary to this theory. Even when the hospital restored his egg and wine diet, in an effort to bring his rash into full flower again, his cancer progressed. One possible explanation: perhaps the bacteria of his urinary tract infection were making biotin, sending enough into his blood to cancel stupendous quantities of avidin and feed the cancer besides...