Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...researchers added about 1/1000 of an ounce of zinc daily to the diet of cirrhosis patients, and noted that liver function improved within two days to four months. In addition, the amount of the metal excreted from the body was reduced...
Giju Manabe, 66-year-old member of the Japanese Diet, felt he was a victim of circumstances. His constituency straddles Tokyo's red-light district. Last week, bailed out of jail, where he had been sent on a charge of accepting $1,400 in bribes from the brothelkeepers' association, Manabe fingered his mustache, explained: "Brothelkeepers are also voters. I had a duty to them. The prostitution problem has to be looked at from all angles...
...months since the Diet passed Japan's first law banning prostitution, the brothelkeepers, banded into an organization called the National Venereal Diseases Prevention Autonomy Association (Zensei), have waged a stout battle to preserve their livelihood. Zensei directors called on the Chief Cabinet Secretary, persuaded the government to postpone enforcement of the law until April 1958. Zensei spoke with the air of an organization representing men of stature in the community. Some of its 35,000 members serve in provincial and municipal assemblies; others are directors of loan associations, better business bureaus, even P.T.A.s. A Zensei-sponsored petition protesting...
...months ago, Zensei ran into trouble. Police probed Zensei's finances, concluded that it had spent $180,000 on bribes to Diet members. They jailed Director Akira Suzuki, arrested Manabe, began investigations of other Diet members...
...first-quarter birth meant that the crucial early months of pregnancy had been in the heat of summer. The winters when most mentally deficient children were born had followed exceptionally hot summers. Dr. Knobloch's conclusion: the mothers had not eaten enough-certainly not a balanced diet with adequate protein -with consequent damage to their developing babies...