Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even as they talked, one woman who always speaks her mind, Birth-Controller Margaret Sanger, became the first American woman ever to address members of the Japanese Diet. Armed with a load of information about new drugs and contraceptives, she urged the scientists and statesmen of rapidly expanding Japan (population increase: 1,000,000 yearly) to redouble their efforts to ease at least one of woman's burdens...
...neglecting the early stages of the disease in their patients. As he put it: "The cardiologist [must] assume the burden of atherosclerosis, which he has so long and so successfully avoided in favor of taking care of its consequences." And on prescribing a low-fat or low-sodium diet, Dr. Page had more bitter words for the profession which sounded sweet to many a dieted layman. Dr. Page came to his conclusions the hard way: he made a drastic cut in the amount of fat he himself consumed. True, there followed a sharp drop in the amount...
Small wonder that McCarthy's pooch was on a cheese diet [TIME, March 22]. He has to stomach more in one day than Fala did in a year...
Last week Markezinis, 44, abruptly resigned from the Cabinet. The official reason was ill health, but in the cafes that explanation was promptly brushed aside. Acquaintances said Spyros' health was, if anything, better since he had given up his habitual daily diet of 120 monogrammed cigarettes and 40 cups of coffee. A more likely reason for the resignation: Markezinis was piqued because three times Papagos refused to appoint men of the Economic Minister's choosing to the Cabinet, and refused to make Markezinis Vice Premier. Athenians also guessed that the two men would soon mend their differences...
...heart patients on a low-sodium diet who have been denied milk, the Los Angeles County Heart Association has helped a local dairy to process milk so that 97% of the salt (and therefore, soldium) is removed. Delivered at home it costs 45?, to a hospital...