Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemingly simple matter of diet that medicine has made one of its most conspicuous gains for the aged. In the early 1900s the idea got around that old people needed less protein, and they were often advised to go on a vegetarian diet. Then came low-salt diets. "Don't fall for that old vegetarian routine," warns Dr. Cowdry. "It'll kill you. And a low-salt diet is just as bad unless it's prescribed for a specific reason, such as a certain kind of heart disease." A good average diet for later life, according...
...Soldier Eisenhower was winning some of his own battles. His pre-operation daily diet of 1,800 calories had been increased to 2,500; slowly, he was recovering some of his lost weight. He was feeling "stronger and stronger," he told his doctors. The physicians-the White House's Howard Snyder, Walter Reed Hospital's Leonard Heaton, Philadelphia Specialist Isidor Ravdin-all agreed. "The President," they reported, "has had a very satisfactory week. His convalescent progress has been steady and uneventful...
...rostrum her second home. "Isn't it beautiful that Mr. Statler has put this initial 'S' on it for us," she cried. "It stands for Spirit-for soul!" Dr. Ruth E. Chew, in a lecture entitled "Shine, Shimmer, Scintillate," told how she put people on "a diet of joy." By way of an appetizer, she had the audience repeat after her twice: "I am filled with joy; joy, gladness and delight make everything all right." Her joy diet, said Dr. Chew, can heal anything, including cancer...
...either name, the Times (slogan: "All the News Without Fear or Favor") is a shining postwar example for the free press in a country which, with 143 dailies, gets a heavy diet of sob stories and sensationalism. The eight-page Japan Times conscientiously buries trivia, tries painstakingly to cover the news in depth...
Cloying Limit. In Fort William, Ont., eight Wisconsin anglers were fined $800 and had $400 worth of fishing tackle confiscated after bringing in 162 pickerel (legal limit: 48), explained: "We were tired of the bologna diet back home...