Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polish Diet convenes after month's postponement...
Excess fat may be a disease, like appendicitis or measles, and then should not be fought by diet or massaging machines (Dr. Maxmilian Kern of Chicago...
...values of foods. Their predecessors had believed that pure carbohydrates, proteins and fats alone were sufficient nutrition to supply an animal with its essential energy, to provide it with material for new growth, to replace its waste tissue. Researchers, including Dr. Hopkins, discovered that animals fed on "pure" diets lost weight and died. He found (1906) that a little milk in the diet kept the animals from dying and concluded that the milk must contain some unknown ingredient (vitamin...
...afflicting Dutch subjects in Java. He observed that the sick Javanese subsisted mainly on polished rice. He observed too that fowls suffered from an analogous polyneuritis and were feeding largely on polished rice. Putting many two's together he concluded that milling and polishing rice must remove some diet essential. He took some "silverskin" (rice pericarp) chaff, soaked it in water and fed the mash to sick fowls. They speedily recovered. Humans also recovered. Thus he showed that eating whole rice was a preventive against beriberi. As preliminary reward his colleagues made him professor of hygiene and legal medicine...
...Hopkins and Eijkman, that, if a future Nobel Prize for vitamin research is made, it should go to Professor Elmer Verner McCollum, 50, head of the department of chemical hygiene at Johns Hopkins school of hygiene & public health. He too was an early revealer of the vitaminic essentials for diet...