Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lands. The Indian delegation was led by bulky, 71-year-old Mrs. Rameshwari Nehru, a respected social worker and cousin-in-law to India's Prime Minister. The 45-man Japanese contingent was headed by Tokutaro Kitamura, a prominent banker and Liberal-Democratic member of Japan's Diet. Among the delegates from the Sudan was Foreign Minister Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub...
...easy on milk, a direct cause-and-effect relationship between milk consumption and formation of calcified deposits (as kidney stones or elsewhere in the body) is hard to establish. Yet many medical experts agree with Dr. Ewell. Says Manhattan's Nutritionist Dr. Norman Jolliffe: "With an adequate diet, milk is not necessary for an adult...
...between different kinds of dietary fat and heart disease. They checked men living in Calabria and Crete, who get nearly all their fat from olive oil. Among 657 rural Cretans aged 45 to 65 there were only two with evidence of heart attacks. A similar sample of Americans, whose diet includes large amounts of animal fats, would show about 60 cases...
...Lovgren, complained to him of pains in her throat. Naturopath Lovgren took her blood pressure, told her that her heartbeat was too fast, promptly administered a "chiropractic adjustment" with a vibrator. "But how will that stop the pains in my throat?" she asked. Lovgren gave her pills, prescribed a diet, then fitted what he called an electrical heat-ray machine around her neck. It began to burn on the left side. He said that was where the infection was, but he treated the burn with Unguentine and charged only...
...half-cooked"), Lahr got away with bushels of bad jokes ("I was married, but now I'm estranged." "I'm a stranger here myself"), some broad-farce ribbing of stockbrokers ("I don't want to sell-might make the market nervous"), and a tycoon's diet of "caviar espresso, codfish benedict, vanilla mousse hollandaise," that prompted one hotel guest to remark, aptly: "I think he may be a Martian...