Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Previously, arterio-sclerosis was treated in a number of ways: surgery, exercise, and rest. However, Dr. Frederick F. Stare, professor of Nutrition and director of the new research program, hopes to be able to control the disease by diet. The harmful molecule appears mainly in the blood of people who eat large amounts of eggs, meat, and milk. Hardening of the arteries is practically unknown in the rice centers of Asia. He is attempting to see whether, by changing the diet, he can stop the thickening of the blood, and if he can create the molecule in the blood...
...lose weight on our diet," says Father Moore cheerfully. "I've lost about 15 pounds since my Benedictine days. But we couldn't be healthier. Pope Leo XIII once ordered a less rigorous regime, but a Carthusian delegation, all 80 to 90 years old, changed his mind. If the delegation lived so long, the life couldn't be too hard, he decided...
...daily Mass and the offices, some of which he sings with his brother monks in the monastery chapel. Each sleeps some seven hours-half in the evening and half in the early morning. The two daily meals, silently delivered to each house by a lay brother, make a frugal diet: rice or beans, eggs or fish, fruit, bread and water or wine is the main meal. From September to Easter the second meal consists only of bread and water...
Visiting at a Manhattan Book Fair for children, stage & screen Bogeyman Boris Karloff called for more realism and violence in moppets' books. A diet of namby-pamby stories, he said, gives "the younger generation a completely distorted picture of the world we live in and leaves them totally unequipped to cope with the world's very real problems...
Like a doctor prescribing a diet, the National Production Authority has been cautious about telling businessmen what they would have to cut out in favor of arms production. NPA did not want to frighten the patient too much. But last week NPA-and other Washington bureaus-thought it was safe to start getting tough and to begin squeezing off more civilian production...