Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like me." The resemblance is more than superficial. Amidst the blooming, buzzing confusion which is an infant's world. Churchill remained the calm eye of the nursery hurricane, demanding a child's secure universe of bath (always at the same temperature), undisturbed nap, and steady liquid diet...
...more intimate account of life in the commune came from a young mother who managed to escape to Hong Kong, hollow-cheeked and scaly from bad diet. At 5 each morning, she and her husband were aroused for "mass sports" (i.e., calisthenics). Their only meal together with their two sons was breakfast. Her husband was sent off in one direction to work all day, she in another. They put their young sons in a common nursery (which charged for the privilege), and the children's 70-year-old grandmother worked on a "mending brigade." Among other conveniences...
...Gets It? Diligent researchers offered more facts and fewer theories on the importance of stress and diet as shorteners of life. Main trouble has always been to find two groups of people similar in all but a few respects, then pinpoint the variations as causes of differences in patterns of disease. Doctors from the Medical Col lege of South Carolina and the University of Haiti picked on their local Negro populations as ethnically indistinguishable, then did post-mortem examinations of the hearts and aortas of 139 South Carolinians and 128 Haitians of equivalent ages and the same sex distribution...
From the Charleston area, Dr. Dale Groom reported, the hearts studied showed twice as much atherosclerosis (the form of arteriosclerosis that affects the coronary arteries) as did the hearts collected in Haiti by Dr. Vergniaud Péan. Why? Their diets did not differ significantly except in two respects: the Haitians got far less to eat, and as many as 42% in the poorer classes were underweight, while as many as 30% of better-fixed Charleston Negroes were overweight; also, the Haitians had practically no cholesterol in their diet, while the South Carolinians had six to 20 times as much...
...first glance, such data would fix the blame on the diet. But South Carolina's Dr. Groom was not to be stampeded. Pathologist Edward E. McKee (who did all the autopsies, did not know where a particular heart came from until afterward) had checked the aortas with equal care, found surprisingly that just as many Haitian as South Carolinian aortas were diseased. To Dr. Groom, this indicated that something besides diet was to blame, though he did not rule out the possibility that a dietary clue might yet be found...