Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third Game belonged to the ancient of the Yankees, Enos Slaughter, 41. The tireless outfielder, who gets his pep from a diet of blackstrap molasses and sunflower-seed oil, waited until the eleventh inning, while Whitey Ford, his sore arm suddenly healthy, held the Sox to a 1-to-1 tie. Then, Enos stepped to the plate, took an effortless swing at the first pitch and sent the ball high and far into the right center-field stands. After Hank Bauer's third-inning homer, that was all the Yankees needed to win, 2-1, and head home with...
...Olive Oil Institute of America was pumping out publicity to 1,700 radio stations and major newspapers extolling olive oil as not only tasty but loaded with "beneficial unsaturated fatty acids." On the back of Wheaties boxes, General Mills urges consumers: "Watch the 'fat-calories' in your diet to live longer!" Underneath is a chart (source attributed to the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports) giving the fat content of scores of foods. High on the list of unfatty foods: the "Breakfast of Champions...
Food Processing, the industry's leading trade magazine, prodded processors to change their manufacturing techniques. Unless food men act quickly, the magazine warned, "food faddists" may gallop away with the issue of harmful fats in the diet, gravely hurt the food industry. The magazine suggested that makers of cake and piecrust mixes, for example, should consider shifting from hydrogenated to non-hydrogenated oils, carried suggestions from nutritionists that processors of vegetable fats change their formulas to provide more "good" unsaturated fatty acids and less of the saturated...
...eminent medical researchers with known differences among themselves as to detailed interpretation of the facts, the five committeemen* surveyed the parade of theories whereby atherosclerosis and its fatal consequences have been successively blamed on cholesterol in one form or another, on increased fat in the diet, on animal fats and most recently on saturated fats, whether animal or vegetable (TIME, Nov. 12, 1956). They agreed that several factors-heredity, the anatomy of blood vessels, blood pressure, sex and obesity-are at least as important as dietary fat in predisposing to atherosclerosis. They were unanimous that obesity is a heavy villain...
...committee concluded: "There is not enough evidence available to permit a rigid stand on what the relationship is between nutrition, particularly the fat content of the diet, and atherosclerosis." Therefore it did not recommend "drastic dietary changes, specifically in the quantity or type of fat in the diet of the general population." Instead, the committee pleaded for prompt, thorough and uncompromising research to fix the facts. But it made a notable concession to the foes of fats, and especially saturated fats, by conceding that in any well-balanced diet for general good health, the fat content should be sufficient only...