Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vitamin. Experiments with the diet of white rats disclosed that on a certain diet they will thrive but will not produce young or, if they have young, will not have sufficient milk to feed them, will become nervous, irritable, cross with the young and even eat them. Olive, peanut, soy bean and peach kernel-oil were found to restore and promote fertility but failed to produce lactation (that is, milk for the young). The seeds of wheat, corn, hemp produced fertility and lactation. From these facts are inferred the existence of a new vitamin, called Vitamin E or Vitamin...
Last year, when Prince Regent Hirohito opened the Imperial Diet, an attempt was made on his life (TIME, Jan. 7). This year, when the Prince was driven through the streets, the crowds were forced down the side streets and the Imperial automobile passed along comparatively deserted thoroughfares without any untoward accidents taking place. The route taken was different from that usually followed...
...House of Peers, the Prince read the Imperial Rescript opening the Diet. The principal points made in connection with the Government's policy...
Peppermint candy and tea were fed the Yale soccer team at its game last Saturday with Pennsylvania. The novel diet was introduced by Professor Yandell Henderson, Professor of Applied Physiology, in the hope that the increased amount of sugar that was introduced into the blood by the candy would find its outlet in increased energy in all the men during the second half...
...Board of Health, found them "abominably adulterated." Made Chief Chemist to the U. S. Government, he began his famed food experiments on human beings. In his Bureau, he formed a "poison squad" of volunteers-12 gallant youths from the clerical force who swore to eat nothing beyond the curious diet he daily administered to them. He fed them on advertised foods that contained boracic acid, sulfates, benzoates, formaldehyde; he watched their cheeks grow lean, their temples hollow, their skins turn the color of whey. He watched the falling off of their flesh, the softening of their bones; and he tabulated...