Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spread on Bread. In a report written jointly with Dr. Helen B. Brown. Dr. Page notes that in the average U.S. diet today, 42% of calories are taken in form of fats, 14% as protein and 44% as carbohydrates. Of the fats, 85% are of animal origin or artificially hydrogenated, and therefore mainly saturated.* while 15% are of vegetable origin and comparatively unsaturated...
...Brown and Page saw it, the trick was to reverse the animal-vegetable fat ratio while disturbing the eating patterns as little as possible. They did this by: 1) eliminating most of the saturated fat from the diet by cutting out fatty meats, butter, whole milk, cream, most cheeses, egg yolks, oleomargarine, hydrogenated shortenings, coconut and cocoa products; 2) adding cottonseed oil (though soybean, corn or peanut oil would have done as well) to make up the fat deficit...
...which would spill the bowel contents into the abdominal cavity, set up a life-threatening infection), the doctors saw no need for surgery. They gave Dulles antibiotics to knock out the infection in the diverticulum and an antispasmodic to keep the gut still, put him on a low-residue diet to reduce its work. Beyond that, all the Secretary needed was bed rest and some unwonted peace and quiet...
Pros & Amateurs. New Yorkers were fed a low-calorie diet of daily news from strange and familiar sources. The city's radio and television stations stepped up coverage, read excerpts from the columnists. On Sunday the Times and NBC sponsored an hourlong, live-television news show that carried Timesmen's reports from New York, Washington and Europe. The Spanish-language El Diario began running two pages of news in English, doubled its press run to 140,000, had to turn away advertising. The National Enquirer, weekly sex-and-gossip sheet, put out an extra issue with some news...
Addressing a joint session of the Japanese Diet, something no foreigner had ever done, Garcia noted that Japan and the Philippines, "two of the countries in the Far East that have come under the beneficent influence of democracy," were caught by geography and defense strategy "in a portentous drama of titanic proportions." He was cheered mightily...