Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These estimates are based on demand and not need, between which the report draws a sharp distinction. "Witness the American male, who prefers steak and potatoes and apple pie to a better-balanced diet. Too many of us drink milk dutifully, but highballs gladly." If the U.S. were to try to supply all needs (minimum standards of health and decency for everyone) as well as all demands (all the goods which the wealthier want to purchase), then the estimates would have to be raised. The U.S. would have to turn out goods & services worth $200 billion...
Doctors give part of the credit to penicillin and other new drugs; e.g., deaths from pneumonia, 1930's big killer of youngsters under four, have been cut to onefourth. But medicine has made progress all along the line. Thanks to public-health campaigns and education of parents in diet and child care, there have been far fewer deaths from contagious diseases, tuberculosis, appendicitis, diarrhea, intestinal disease, rheumatic fever...
...Leipoldt's bibbing babies, sturdy five-year-old Rodney Whitley, considered going on the wagon last week. The Natal Coast boy, who had been drinking for four years (he is allergic to milk), and last year pulled through a polio attack on a diluted wine diet, is tiring of the drink...
After office hours, he took home a silver porringer sent by the President of the U.S., was told by amused nurses that the porringer was very nice, but week-old son Jorge Francisco was for the time being on a liquid diet...
Boozehound. In Brookline, Mass., Tiger, a two-year-old beagle, accidentally locked in an auto trunk for 21 days, survived, regained twelve lost pounds on a diet of eggnog...