Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British literary and dramatic world is to be met within his pages. There is George Bernard Shaw, "the enfant terrible of London, always in the highest spirits and the strangest clothes, that might quite easily have been made at home, bilious in colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind rocks or ancient oaks, so that the elusive word might be whispered to him as he moved in well disguised anguish from cache to cache,-a curious floating method...
According to Gandhi's son Devadas, the Mahatma lost eight of his 98 pounds in prison. This is attributed to his rule to eat only twice a day, at sunrise and sunset, and never more than five articles of diet. (He counts soup seasoned with salt and pepper as three articles...
...Eddy are Dr. R. R. Williams, chemist of the Western Electric Company, and Dr. Ralph Kerr, of the department of organic chemistry at Columbia. They are now working to produce the new vitamin synthetically. Their work may lay a basis for future synthetic foods to form a scientific diet, though the authentic vitamin scientists have nothing but condemnation for the various commercial tablets, cakes, etc., now on the market. The best diet can still be secured from natural foods...
Last week the Department explained that meat consumption in the U. S. increased from 143.9 Ibs. per capita in 1921 to 149.7 Ibs. in 1922, to 167 Ibs. in 1923-and that five-sixths of the extra meat consumed was pork, pork being now 54% of the meat diet of the world's greatest meat-eating nation...
...diet of a papa bear, a mama bear, a baby bear...