Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Besides rice, the main staple of Japanese diet is fish. To catch enough fish for 72,000,000 Japanese to eat, both raw and cooked, for breakfast, lunch and dinner, it is inevitable that a huge number of Japanese should have got a sense of the sea. Like the isle-bound British, the isle-bound Japanese are primarily seafarers...
...Food is so inadequate that every disease is influenced by malnutrition. The average diet in North China rarely includes meat, consists of yellow corn and millet flour, sometimes mixed with soybean flour, and sesame or peanut oil. People who have a little money eat spinach, cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North...
...fainting from hunger were a common sight in the streets of Athens, Salonika, Peiraeus. Bread, wheat and flour were the first commodities the Germans confiscated. Later they took tomatoes, sent them to Libya, where German troops were suffering from scurvy. Dried figs and raisins, now the staples of Greek diet, also are being commandeered, shipped to Germany...
This tough talk was underlined by the House of Representatives' approval of a 3,800,000,000 yen ($874,000,000) extraordinary military budget. Thus Japan's Tojo, Togo and Diet had thrust the Empire into a warlike posture which, if it were to be abandoned for any reason, would require a fearful loss of face and alibis which would have to be masterpieces of Japanese verbalism. The Japanese were still fooling themselves into believing that the U.S. could be made to back down...
...acute attacks, rest, liquid diet and drugs to relieve pain are "of the utmost importance." A few days in bed will shorten illness, prevent complications...