Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors still differ about many details of the relationship between a high-fat diet and the high death rate from coronary disease in the U.S., but more and more are coming to a practical conclusion: cut down on the fats without waiting for all the facts. At the same time, they recommend a substantial switch from hard, saturated fats of animal origin to cooking oils of vegetable origin. After Cleveland's Dr. Irvine H. Page suggested that such a diet change was due for wide-scale trial (TIME, Jan. 5), Nutritionist Norman Jolliffe reported that 79 men. aged...
...Sunday Every Day." The trouble, says Dr. Keys, is that for 50 years technical progress and higher standards of living have added too many rich, fatty items, formerly luxuries, to the everyday U.S. diet-"Sunday dinner is no longer special . . . We have Sunday every day." Americans who used to get an estimated 30% of their daily calories in fats now get 40% or more in that form; Keys recommends a cutback to between 25% and 30%. More important, only about half of this fat should be saturated (the chemists' way of saying that the available carbon atoms...
...makes little or no difference how much preformed cholesterol is in the diet (egg yolks and organ meats are full of it), because this does not get into the blood; what counts is the fat from which the body manufactures cholesterol...
...diehard traditionalists strongly believe that every marriage should be arranged. To them, a wedding is not a loving union between individuals but a solemn bond between families. To pacify this powerful group, the Director of the Imperial Household Board appeared before the Japanese Diet and solemnly insisted that the royal marriage was prearranged and "not a tennis-court romance...
Died. Ichiro Hatoyama, 76, onetime (1954-56) Prime Minister of Japan; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. A peppery parliamentarian who in earlier days often got into fist fights in the Diet, Hatoyama would have become Premier in 1946 had he not been purged by Douglas MacArthur for his prewar militarist sympathies. He was depurged in 1951. As Prime Minister, he visited Moscow in 1956, formally ended the official state of Russo-Japanese hostility that had lingered on from World War II, opened the way for Japan's membership...