Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conscientious allergist can permit Walter W. Sackett's accelerated diet for infants [Sept. 24] to go unchallenged. To feed eggs, orange juice and other solids to infants only a few weeks of age is the best way to initiate such allergic diseases as atopic eczem allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma and even neuro-circulatory disturbances...
...lungs to be oxygenated. Thus a large proportion of the outgoing blood was being short-circuited, clogging the right side of the heart instead of coursing into the arteries. Hickey's heart was laboring enormously at only 25% efficiency. He was put to bed on a salt-free diet, and dosed with digitalis to boost his heart. That was in January...
...cramps and unable to sleep, Dumas had no option but to go to work "with both hands, one hand writing as fast as it could, while the other was massaging his belly and coaxing from deep within him one lugubrious belch after another." His doctor put him on a diet (cold beef, olive oil, milk, cucumber salad, thrice daily, with hot chocolate between meals), but Dumas' eructations were so little lessened that he returned to his favorite, bouillabaisse. Dumas cooked this dish himself and liked to down six helpings of it at a sitting. A doctor who partook...
...debate over how Johnny should learn to read may have passed from the headlines, but to Columnist Dorothy Thompson there is another question that is equally important: Are the schools giving Johnny a reading diet of literature-or of pap? Last week, after comparing the old lesson books to the slick basal readers of today with their controlled vocabularies, word-frequency counts, and bland little tales about Dick and Jane, Columnist Thompson had her answer: "It is possible," says she in the current Ladies' Home
...fetching in her tight red pedal pushers. While Pluto and "Eury," as she is known to her friends, take off for a tryst in hell, trouble develops on Olympus, where an amorous Jupiter is losing the loyalty of his court (everybody is tired of that endless nectar and ambrosia diet); so he agrees to cheer up the gods by a mass junket to the gayer clime of Hades and, incidentally, to rescue Eurydice. In hell, confusion is confounded by folderol, but finally-with the help of what is probably the fieriest cancan ever written-everyone agrees on a highly satisfactory...