Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their small white eggs. But as soon as man started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never reach maturity. Vitamin B, plentiful in dirty clothes, is what a moth is after when he chews up a gravy spot...
...cross-linkages." These the chemists replaced by "bis-thioether cross-linkages." The artificial links are as strong mechanically as the natural ones, so the wool is as strong. The links are also stronger chemically, and the moths' digestive juices cannot break them down. Moth larvae put on a diet of modified wool quickly starve to death, even though a few nutritious food stains are added. Moncrieff predicts that when all wool is modified in this way, clothes moths will have to return to their primitive diet...
Bustling Dr. Edith Summerskill is neither an epicure nor a literary giant, but she too has had her say about the British diet. It was Dr. Summerskill who, as Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Ministry of Food, helped introduce whale meat and snoek to British markets as substitutes for juicy roast beef and mutton saddles. "I thought," she had the grace to admit then, "that I would be politically finished," but her British constituents managed to forgive...
Globe-trotting Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas flew back home from Asia 15 Ibs. lighter than he went in. Though on crutches with the thigh fracture he suffered when thrown in Tibet by a half-wild pony, he could reminisce about his native diet of yak butter and yak meat cooked over fires of yak dung; his recorded broadcast from the forbidden Tibetan capital (carried to India by yak), and his gifts to Tibet's 15-year-old Dalai Lama (a gold & silver Siamese tiger skull, an alarm clock, a raincoat...
...There is no sure cure for rheumatic fever. The standard prescription is rest, sunlight and a wholesome diet...