Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these thoughts coincide with a fall in the blood sugar level to the lowest point of the day, an abnormal physiologic state known as hypoglycemia. During this state, the entire body suffers a reduced oxygen consumption, and the organ most vulnerable is the brain. It is caused by faulty diet, namely, eating too much sugar (and foods containing sugar) and starchy foods during the night and day preceding...
...rights about the whole thing. The book was called Half a Loaf, and its heroine remarked, after leaving her writer-husband: "She had licked the cream off the milk pail; she had had the fresh half of the loaf." Twenty-five years later Gracie evidently thinks that bland diet...
...A.M.A. last week added its voice to those already raised in warning (TIME, Aug. 6), against two widely publicized new "wonder" diets: the "Rockefeller" (low-protein) diet and the "fabulous formula" diet of corn oil, dextrose and evaporated milk. The A.M.A. Journal reports noted that both diets could drop the patient below the minimum protein requirement, thus upsetting the bodily nitrogen balance and leading to a variety of deficiency diseases. "Fortunately, few people will adhere to either of these diets for long . . . But there are compulsive dieters, just as there are compulsive drinkers . . . and in these subjects harm...
...fight severe burns, modern medicine has experimented with all kinds of remedies-tannic acid (now in some disrepute), bandaging, baths, skin grafting, diet, even hypnosis. But the victim of an extensive burn (more than 10% of the skin) is in most critical danger from loss of fluid and shock. The standard treatment for this has long been to administer either whole blood or blood plasma intravenously. Since plasma is often not available and since it often contains hepatitis virus, doctors have been looking for a simpler remedy. Last week a team of U.S. Public Health Service scientists announced that they...
Conceivably Hopalong and Superman may overstimulate young imaginations. But a steady diet of such modern-reader characters as Dick and Jane may result in something worse. To Mrs. Frances C. Sayers, former superintendent of work with children at the New York Public Library, one reason so few (17%) Americans read books after leaving school is just because their early ones are so simple and so pleasant. "This seems a paradox, and it is. The paradox is in the word 'enjoyment.' We rob the children of the initial enjoyment of wrestling with reading by making all the words...