Word: dieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some ladies protest. Say they: "I can reduce my diet but I can't reduce my figure." Some gentleman have scoffed. But the ladies may justify their assertion with some show of cogency by pointing to some figures issued by the Treasury last week...
Occasional cures are affected-in Hawaii, with Chaulmoogra oil; in the U. S. with injections of bichloride of mercury, with arsenic; X-ray treatment affects temporary relief. Lepers are daily boiled in hot baths; given strychnine; put on a diet. After a period of eight years, the disease sometimes vanishes...
...became more and more satisfied that drugs could do the disease no good. I finally became convinced that those who hold meat-eating to be one of the principal root causes of diabetes were right. For a year now, no meat has passed my lips. The change in my diet has produced results so marked that it seems little short of miraculous...
Epilepsy. A simple diet high in fat has been found to bring relief to the unfortunate child suffering from epilepsy. This hopeful news was brought to the convention by Dr. M. G. Peterson of the Mayo Clinic. His new treatment for fits and convulsions has been in use for intervals of from two and a half years to three months; and, of the 37 children treated, more than half have not been troubled with convulsions since they started on the diet...
...diet used by Dr. Peterson is not unusual except in the large amount of fat and the small amount of carbohydrates included. As much as six-sevenths of the total food is made up of such fats as cream, butter, olive oil, codliver oil and any other fatty food that children will take. Sugars and starches arc cut to a minimum and protein sufficient to maintain bodily growth is carefully added. Dr. Peterson reported that, in addition to the cessation of all epileptic symptoms, the youngsters slept sounder, minded their parents better...