Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British doctors dealt frankly with the monks. They- Drs. Sydney A. Monckton Copeman and Major Greenwood were on a, mission for the Ministry of Health to learn how much influence a vegetarian and a flesh diet had in causing cancer. Was cancer more prevalent among carnivores than among flesh-abstainers, or the opposite? It would be possible, scientists reasoned, to segregate batches of humans, like laboratory mice, and study the effects of diets. But that would be inconvenient. Then a keen mind in the Ministry of Health fixed attention on the Roman Catholic monasteries in England. The monks living...
While in the monasteries the doctors studied the effects of diet on segregated men, at Sing Sing (New York state prison, Ossining) where men live under similarly "controlled" conditions, Dr. Amos T. Baker has set up a psychiatric clinic to learn the cause of imprisonment. Each day he will unravel the characters of three men to learn 1) their intelligence. 2) vocational possibilities, 3) future outlook on society. Said Warden Lewis E. Lawes of the project: "Some of the men we have here are pretty smart birds, and I expect some occasionally to put one over on the doctor...
...Affairs Committee that the Army food rations were lower than those of convicts in Federal prisons. The soldier gets only one good meal a day, he said. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis added that President Coolidge and the Budget Bureau were responsible for the Army's meagre diet. Hearing these words and many others, the House Military Affairs Committee set about to expand the War Department appropriation bill. It increased the daily food ration five cents per day (a total recommendation of $2,167,187); it provided for an enlisted strength of 118,750 instead...
...some reason in most exhibitions of this sort a premium seems to be placed on quantity rather than on quality. Perhaps this is because the usual diet varies so radically in different parts of the world. For instance a middle westerner who has consumed a meal of bird's nests and caterpillars might think himself entitled to a fairly good niche in the Hall of Fame, while a Chinese coolie commenting on the achievement would be at a loss to understand why a man deserved any praise for eating his Sunday dinner. Quantity, however, in connection with such feats...
...committee of the Diet reported favorably last week the funeral budget bill, providing for a total expenditure of 2,980,000 yen ($1,490,000) on the state funeral which will be held late in February. Among other expenses will be the permanent support of the oxen used to draw the Imperial Hearse, since these animals never thereafter perform labor of any kind...