Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polyneuritis, is caused, not by alcohol, but by a vitamin deficiency -for heavy drinkers get their calories in liquor, usually lose their appetite for food. "The disease," say the authors, "never occurs in inebriates who are well-nourished. . . . It can be cured by adding vitamin B1 to the diet...
...undoubtedly read most of the 7,000 military books in his library. He likes cheap fiction, often reads himself to sleep with typical Wild West stories by a German named Karl May, who has never been in the U.S. In a book on diet, Vegetarian Hitler penciled this marginal note: "Cows were meant to give milk, oxen for drawing loads...
...special town meeting of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was called to order in Tokyo's monumental Diet Building last week by His Imperial Majesty Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan...
...chief new business to be brought up this week was the consideration of huge appropriation bills for shipping to replace losses incurred in the development of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Since 80% of the Japanese Diet members chosen at the recent elections were Government-supported (TIME, May 18), there was no doubt that the ayes would have...
Liver Cancer, rare in the U.S. and Europe, but the most common form of the disease in the Orient and Africa. Reason: the Oriental diet consists chiefly of rice and vegetables. This diet makes the liver susceptible to cancerous destruction by some unknown agent. In Occidental countries, the liver is resistant to the unidentified cancer factor because it is protected by diets of milk, dairy products, wheat flour. These facts, said Dr. Cramer, show that cancer of the liver, at least, can be prevented by proper food...