Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekend trip, the pilot will be preconditioned by eating a low-residue diet (no bulky leaf vegetables, peas, corn or beans, no fat). As Captain William Bligh noted 169 years ago after he was cast away by the Bounty mutineers, some of his lifeboat companions went weeks with no bowel movement, had no lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will...
...Harvard are not in one building. Books that law students and law professors need are in the Law School Library. Books to be used by students of the Medical School are in the Medical School Library. Books for students studying mining and geology are in the Mining Library. However, diet and nutrition is everybody's problem, not for medical students alone, and books on food should be available to all. If students would like to read any of them, I would be glad to arrange to have the following books given to the Widener Library for use by all college...
...vampire menace of Latin America has been building up for several decades. Even before they carried rabies, the blood-drinking bats were not pleasant neighbors. When attacking sleeping humans, they generally go for the toes, sometimes creeping under the bedclothes like evil, winged mice. Sleeping animals are their staple diet. They generally bite on the wing, retreating and hovering in the air a few feet away to see if their victim has awakened. Dogs often wake up when bitten, but other animals generally do not. Several bats may flutter down to drink one trickle of blood...
Internist Wolf (who studied the stomach's workings for years by looking inside a patient who had to be fed through a hole in his abdominal wall) believes that "merely restricting the diet has never been known to be of real value." A major exception: cases of bleeding ulcers. Patients allowed to eat what they want have done at least as well as the rigidly controlled, if not better. All ulcer patients react too strongly to stress. "So if a patient falls off the milk wagon, his guilt feelings may cause the gastric glands to secrete more acid...
...Andrew Baczek was an apprentice sword swallower (for a change of diet he sometimes ate fire, too) with a few months' experience. One day, at Chicago's Riverview Amusement Park, he overate. "I'd already swallowed that bayonet five times that day," he recalled later. "You're only supposed to do it a few times a week." At any rate, when he tried to swallow that bayonet, almost a foot of it slipped down all right and then it stuck. The crowd began to titter and Andy panicked. Instead of pulling the bayonet out and starting...