Word: diet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diet & Stress. In treating acne, Dr. Fisher prescribes antibiotics to keep down the bacteria, and drains the pustules. He condemns the acne victim's bathroom ritual of pimple-squeezing as dangerous and likely to spread the infection. Dr. Fisher prescribes drying lotions to reduce the skin's oiliness, and he preaches the importance of soap-and-water cleanliness, plus germicides...
...major element in his acne treatment is diet, a prescription that is not so simple as it sounds. Mothers complain that grown boys and girls keep on drinking milk, as in childhood, "because they don't like to chew meat or any food that takes time to eat-they're in too much of a rush." When Dr. Fisher advises teen-agers to cut down on foods rich in both fats and sweets-fried foods, ice cream, peanut butter, whole-milk cheeses (as distinct from cottage cheese), nuts and pastries, many of them set up an anguished wail...
...Kurt J. Isselbacher, Matthew A. Budd, and Lewis B. Holmes of the Medical School, and Dr. Kay Tanaka, a visiting assistant professor at the Med School from the University of Tokyo, believe that a special low-protein diet may prevent the brain damage...
Isovaleric acid is produced from auamino acid called leucine which is found in many proteins. If most of the protein can be removed from the diet the problem of the blocked chemical chain can be indirectly solved by eliminating the chain entirely...
...translations available) with brilliant fidelity of tone-stark, spare and stinging. Into a landscape of damnation walks Woyzeck, a simple soldier, poor, puzzled, and haunted by voices and apparitions. To eke out his army pay he becomes a guinea pig for a medical fanatic who puts him on a diet of nothing but peas and exhibits him to his students, an experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne his child out of wedlock. More sensualist than wanton, she betrays him with a dashing drum major...