Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's medical chart continued to show an upward curve. For the first time, he sat up in a wheelchair and was pushed around the sun-drenched porch outside his room at Denver's Fitzsimons Hospital. His diet became more varied.* He started two paintings. He got back to a part-time, Monday-Wednesday-Friday work week. And once more a stream of officials and friends, dammed up for three weeks, began to pour into Denver and up to the President's bedside...
...only factors to which Dr. Keys would give major responsibility were physical exercise (or the lack of it) and diet. He tackles the diet problem from the viewpoint of fat content. The fat in the U.S. diet, he points out, has been going up for 50 years; fats account for as much as 40% of its calories. In Sweden the proportion is 38%. But in Sardinia it is only 22%. The clincher, for Dr. Keys, is to be found among Yemenite Jews who had no coronary disease in their native habitat but have begun to develop it since they migrated...
Surveying the puzzling and contradictory evidence, Dr. Page offers a moderate summation: too much fat in the diet and too little are both bad. Anything below 15% is dangerous (he tried it himself for a year and found that he lost weight, energy and equanimity). Current U.S. levels are needlessly high. A nice balance: 25%. And he sees no decisive difference in the effects of vegetable and animal fats...
Mono is a curable disease. The cure is, however, most exasperating. All the doctor can do is prescribe bed rest averaging two weeks and an adequate diet. Occasionally he may use antibiotics to combat secondary complications which invade the weakened body, but these drugs do not attack the disease itself...
...reunion upset the balance in the Diet, but was likely to provoke a similar reunion between Hatoyama's Democrats and the Liberals of Ex-Premier Shigeru Yoshida, which would give conservatives a 147-seat majority and Japan the near equivalent of a two-party system...