Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory that any disease can be controlled by nature's own remedial agents within the body- blood, lymph and nerve force. In diagnosing disease, osteopaths search for structural abnormalities of any kind, and seek by mechanical adjustments to remove these obstacles to proper natural functioning. Osteopathy employs good diet, hygiene and nursing as adjuncts. It does not ignore the microbic theory of disease, grants some value to surgery, but believes the main cause of disease to lie in maladjustment. The practice is legalized in the U. S. and Canada, and there are about 7,000 practitioners...
...finely adjusted that the balance must be easily disturbed, I think, one way or another. At any rate, when I went today to the drug store for my usual luncheon of a banana and a marshmallow, I felt my gorge rise. However, knowing the importance of a regular, calculated diet I finally downed...
...Swedish Diet approved a bill to allow women to enter the public services on the same footing as men, with the exception of the fighting services, the Church, presiding judgeships in the highest provincial courts...
...Sarah's Food Boss Is Here to Diet Us" was the way Mr. Hearst's New York Journal announced the arrival in this country of Dr. Julie La Salle Stevens, of Paris, former dietitian of Sarah Bernhardt. She proposes to impart to the American populace some of the dietetic principles which made the divine actress one of the seven wonders of the modern world for her vitality at an advanced age. Bernhardt's diet was simple and salutary - orange juice, stewed fruit, eggs, whole wheat bread, baked potatoes, salads, etc. Many Americans are undeniably foolish eaters...
...Some 400 are from faith healers, auto-suggestionists and other brands of fanatics. Of the others, many are palpably quackish or too weirdly fantastic to warrant investigation. Almost every plant known to botany has been claimed as a specific, with bloodroot an easy first. Red clover chopped fine, a diet of snails and mud baths have their advocates. Lord Atholstan is the first Canadian-born peer to be raised to the House of Lords for services to the Empire. He is a self-made man who joined the staff of the Montreal Gazette...