Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Starving. The 124 patients at the Birmingham (Ala.) Hillman Hospital were badly undernourished. They suffered from scurvy, pellagra, other starvation diseases. According to orthodox theory, their deficient diet should have ruined their teeth. But investigators found, to their surprise, that the 124 patients had only one-third as many cavities and missing teeth as well-fed people usually have...
These puzzling findings were reported in the Journal of the American Dental Association by four researchers who have been trying to find out why teeth go bad. Does a substandard diet prevent decay? Perhaps it does. The Birmingham men would not say, but they were sure that underfeeding does not cause decay...
...subtlety in musicals. "Annie Get Your Gun," while based on old formulae, displays great advances in technique and sophistication of method. And with its appetite whetted by occasional successful novelties such as "Finian's Rainbow" and "Street Scene," perhaps the public will come to require a complete change of diet...
...adult humans cannot survive below 900 calories daily. At Peiping, in torn China, remnants of Harvard's Yenching University and other learned institutions ended their trek back from resistence headquarters to face ruined buildings and the task of rebuilding them with students who barely keep alive on the allotted diet...
...handlers gave him a soft diet of bran mash and hay, and nothing to do all day. Then gradually he was brought up to form with long jogs and short workouts. A fortnight ago, at Florida's Hialeah Park, the Big Train raced again. He won-by a few inches. Last week, with 130 Ibs. on his back,† the brown gelding did it again. Neither race was an important one, but they were impressive warm-ups for the winter's big two: the $50,000 Widener Handicap at Hialeah next week and the $100,000 Santa Anita...