Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government's parade of witnesses gave some shocking testimony. They had, they said, followed Dr. Koch's instructions in treating cancer patients: first a "detoxicating regime" of enemas and a diet of fresh apple and vegetable juices, then injections of glyoxylide. Koch insisted that no other drugs be used except "the smallest amount of morphine by mouth only." Many of the victims might have died anyway, but his instructions denied them even enough morphine to ease their pain. An osteopath told of trying the Koch treatment on five cancer patients (including his wife); all died. Last fortnight...
During the wartime food shortage, researchers noticed a curious thing about the health of chickens. Well-housed chickens, deprived of animal-protein foods, began to droop and look sickly. Chickens living in dirty, littered henhouses did all right, even on a poor diet; but when the henhouse litter was cleaned up, they began to droop too. This was especially interesting to six Lederle Laboratories researchers who guessed that something in the chicken litter was supplying some mysterious factor the chickens needed...
...Cover) Long, long ago, when ancient Greece's local wars were called off so that Greek could meet Greek in the Olympic games, athletes were faddish about food. At one stage, the training-table diet for athletes was fresh cheese at all meals - and nothing else except water. Then things swung the other way: Milo of Crotona, the greatest wrestler of ancient times, ate an entire ox at a single sitting...
Last week, some 2,000 years later, Olympic athletes in London were still talking about food. At Uxbridge, where 289 U.S. Olympic athletes were quartered, their angry roars could be heard in the kitchen. The wrestlers were getting enough to eat, but the wrong kind of diet. One coach threatened to smuggle his he-men into London for a feed on black-market steaks...
...Allies; 2) there must be no editorializing or propaganda. Most big Japanese papers issued secret monthly guidebooks to keep their staffs posted on the changing interpretations and taboos of the touchy U.S. censors. Sample advice: don't say that U.S. newsmen chewed gum at the opening of the Diet (they did, but the press must not present such an "unfavorable" picture of the occupation...