Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the undergraduate wants is inexpensive and easily procured. It has not the rare qualities attributed to the Chinese "bird's nest song", but to the average mortal as a steady diet it is infinitely more attractive...
...clock in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Amphitheatre. In addition to the usual demonstration of cases, Dr. John Donley of Providence, Rhode Island, will speak on "Wirsung to Riolan on the Pancreatic Duct", and Dr. H. B. Richardson '10 of New York City on "The Inadequacy of the Measured Diet as an Index of the Food Metabolized...
...call of the wild". But it is one thing to sit in a "movie" (particularly in this hot weather) and admire some "he-man" thrashing through the snow at six and a half miles an hour; and quite another to go out and do it as a steady diet. The state of nature is one state permanently barred from the union by common consent. There are too many porcellain bath-tubs and safety-razors in the world today to make primitive life attractive for any length of time to the overwhelming majority of people. Old Adam, senior, alive today, would...
...taken time to correlate and interpret. The result is an enlightening account of the refectories and outside caravansaries where the students ate their meals. Unbelievable as it may seem, it is an established fact of physiology that a man's mental capacity is vitally affected by his diet. From a survey of the restaurants, dining-halls, and food-shops in the vicinity, even in their present ruined condition, we can glean some significant facts about the student life, and the probable physique of the men at the university...
...connection with the tests made at a college in Springfield on the effect of "reduced rations". A group of men, similar physically and engaged in the same activities, were divided into two classes for a month, half on "reduced rations" and the other half keeping to their usual diet. At the end of the month it was found that the former group were more alert mentally, more active and efficient physically, and possessed more endurance in every way than the others. The one drawback was that these men had no surplus, no energy stored up to resist colds or other...