Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. George Richards Minot, 64, Harvard professor of medicine (1928-48) whose interest in diet, enforced by his own diabetes, led him i) to the discovery that eating liver helped people with pernicious anemia and 2) to a one-third share of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Medicine; after long illness; in Brookline, Mass...
Nonetheless, the four hybrid bears were paired off. Last month the two couples confounded the experts by producing a litter each. One cub lived, nursed from an Evenflow bottle on a diet of Esbilac (a Borden animal formula). Last week he weighed more than five pounds and was starting to open his eyes. Washington's Zoomen named him Gene, just to needle the geneticists. They watched him with pride and hope and designs on his chromosomes. If Gene proves fertile, he could be the Adam of a wholly new race of bears...
...outstanding achievement was the discovery of the liver treatment for pernicious anemia in 1926. Not only did he realize that a liver diet could reduce the seriousness of this red-blood cell deficiency, but he spend many years extracting the effective fraction of liver and making it commercially available for the medical profession...
...Chemical Co. was assigned a tough job. It had to make synthetic amino acids needed to speed the recovery of wounded soldiers. In doing the job, Dow experimented with chickens, noted that the birds grew bigger and faster when an amino acid called di-methionine was added to their diet. Dow thought di-methionine had commercial possibilities, but there was one hitch: it cost $11 a lb. Dow spent $200,000 on research, another $1,000,000 on a plant in Pittsburg, Calif, with a capacity of 2,000 Ibs. of di-methionine a day. This week...
...balance last year's heavy movie diet of psychotics, disillusioned soldiers, mistreated Negroes and megalomaniac athletes, Hollywood is currently dishing up a series of bland drawing-room comedies. Mostly these harmless romps seem to have no more serious aim than to give tired moviegoers a chance to watch elegantly dressed people wasting time and money...