Word: dieted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inequality of income and wealth discussed in your Essay presents a moral problem only when those at the bottom lack the things that most civilized people view as imperative: a nutritious and varied diet, a decent place to live and an environment in which to raise children, and medical care. If we worked on equalizing the distribution of these elements of life, unequal income distribution could serve its purpose of stimulating and rewarding innovation, initiative and risk-taking without nagging so much at our consciences...
...emotional disorder that has been occurring more frequently in the past few years. Of those affected, 80% are female, mostly in their early teens. Typically they are intelligent, ambitious, middle-and upper-class girls who are perfectionists and eager to please their mothers and fathers. Suddenly they start to diet and then simply stop eating, sometimes losing 50 lbs. or so in a few months. Some, like Susan, now 21, seek treatment and manage to get back to a normal weight. Others, with or without treatment, may start eating enough to survive, yet remain rail-thin and undernourished. Still...
...Save-Your-Life Diet, Reuben...
...acetaldehyde factory that began to discharge effluents into Minamata Bay. One of the waste substances: a highly toxic methyl mercury compound that was passed up the food chain from tiny organisms to small fish to the larger fish that comprise a substantial part of the townspeople's diet. By 1953 the mercury contamination had reached a dangerous level in some people, who began to suffer the crippling symptoms of what is now referred to as Minamata disease. Howling in pain and racked by convulsions, 106 citizens of Minamata died over a period of a decade, and many other victims...
...Full Diet. Then the algae-enriched water is fed into the middle pond, where the microscopic plants provide feed for tiny crustaceans called daphnids, or water fleas. Finally, water containing fleas and algae flows back into the bottom tank, where it provides a full diet for the tilapia. Nothing is wasted: in the warm greenhouse space above the ponds, the new alchemists grow vegetables even in the dead of the New England winter. The plants are fertilized by the nutrient-laden fish water. To protect their harvests against bugs, the scientists have brought insect-eating frogs, spiders and chameleons instead...