Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madame Chiang Kaishek, resting on Brazil's Brocoio Island off Rio de Janeiro (TIME, July 24), was reported inclined toward U.S.-style cooking. Restaurateur Alfredo Balbis, catering to her party, also said that though her diet forbids seafood, she demanded shrimp and got it. Other items in demand: Coca-Cola, mineral water, port...
China's hunger pangs were described with sharp medical clarity recently by a British surgeon. The average Chinese diet was always so low in protein (nitrogen compounds in meat, fish, some vegetables) that the slightest disruption in supply might produce famine. The disruption brought about by the war has"'been enormous. In south Kwangtung last year, H. T. Laycock, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, doctored hundreds of Chinese who had been getting no protein at all. Wrote he to the British Medical Journal...
...child. Hotchkiss reports that, among a group of married women 20 to 29 years old who used no contraceptives, only one intercourse in 202 resulted in pregnancy. Infertility is by no means an exclusive matter of stopped-up tubes, venereal disease, or poor sexual development. Some other causes: diet low in vitamins or protein, poor absorption of food, too much alcohol, too little sleep, "nervousness," infections, recent fever, thyroid and pituitary disorders, wrong kinds of vaginal douches...
...asked her questions about her family, her life and her diet...
...looked as though Tanner's Social Democrats (85 out of 200 Diet seats) would revolt. But the effective time had passed. Germans were arriving every day, parading the streets of Helsinki and singing mechanically. The citizens glared. Ribbentrop flew home to tell his master that Finland would tie up some 20 Russian divisions, prevent a Russian breakthrough to Norway and possible juncture with the Western Allies. Down by the harbor a stolid crowd watched flustered Germans dredge for 15 tanks, sent to the bottom the day before when a small and poorly loaded German freighter turned over near...