Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although I haven't read her "definitive" book, I will venture to say that the bulge around Lilly's middle could be corrected by diet, exercise and a well-fitted girdle...
...paper to be presented this afternoon to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Oscar W. Portman, a post-doctoral fellow at the School, describes a saturated fat diet which has been 90 per cent effective in inducing the disease in cebos monkeys imported from South Africa...
Coronary heart attacks are commonly caused by the accumulation of fatty deposits in the arteries hindering the normal flow of blood. This fatty lining has been found in the atreries of nine out of ten monkeys fed on a carefully regulated diet consisting chiefly of saturated fats such as are found in butter, Spry or Crisco in contrast to the unsaturated fats in corn or olive...
...mothers (aged 15 to 49) rose a whopping 11½%. ¶ Investigating their state's notoriety as a "stone area," two University of North Carolina doctors reported that too much spinach is a major cause of kidney stones. The stones are caused by excess oxalic acid in the diet, said Researchers James C. Andrews and Claude L. Yarbro, and the "much-praised spinach is one of the worst offenders." ¶ In Morristown, N.J., the Morristown Memorial Hospital installed a new device, aimed at giving unwelcome visitors, e.g., children under 14, a chance to be seen by and chat with...
Familiar Problems. Few if any other U.S. diplomats had ever faced an ordeal like Angus Ward's. He had spent nearly a month on a bread-and-hot-water diet, two weeks of it in semi-freezing solitary confinement, and throughout had stubbornly refused to give the Reds a "confession." Ironically enough, this very nearly ruined his career. Irritated by the controversial publicity he had received, Foreign Service brass was inclined to regard Ward as a nuisance, and in September 1950 he was named consul general in Nairobi, a job that made little use of his peculiar qualifications...