Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reduced to its simplest terms, the Cureton cure consists of 1) regular, rhythmic exercise (e.g., a half-hour swim or a twomile walk each day), to strengthen the body's big muscles and promote the flow of blood back to the heart; 2) a diet of more green and yellow vegetables, no excess fats, starches or sugars, and "not too much of anything." Dr. Cureton stresses the fact that this is not a reducing regimen, nor is it for sick men. The purpose is to tone up the cardio-vascular system, strengthen the heart, improve the digestion, clear...
...cream, almost at vital to 'Cliffe-dwellers as Harvard men are, has been reaching the Annex in smaller quantities for the past month, but the black coffee diet was imposed last night for the first time...
...anti-pig story? I find that the Little Piggie story changed and warped the facts in such a way that the snobbish and un-working-class attitudes our readers detected crept in and received the main emphasis rather than the high price of pork -once a staple in the diet of millions...
Cartoonist Vicky last week recalled Shakespeare's description in King Henry V of the night before the battle of Agincourt, as Frenchmen stood around camp fires discussing the prowess that their English foes drew from a beef diet (see cartoon). Vicky did not think it necessary to remind Britons of the Duke of Orleans' comment: "Ay, but these English are shrewdly* out of beef...
...Japanese Communist Party was at its peak: 200,000 claimed members, working control of Japanese unions, 3,000,000 votes in the Diet elections...