Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening the Diet last week, frock-coated Emperor Hirohito pleaded for taibo seikatsu-austerity living. Two days later, foxy old Premier Shigeru Yoshida explained what the austerity is for: to check Japan's ominous inflation, and, by stern cuts in government civil spending, to make room in Yoshida's trillion-yen ($2,780,000,000) budget for Japan's burgeoning rearmament...
...Calorie Diet. After his regular open-air session on Tower Hill last week, Dr. Soper grabbed a quick lunch and a train for Walton-on-Thames to conduct a Communion service at 4 p.m., address a rally of church supporters, then deliver an evening sermon to a packed congregation. He was already suffering from a bad cold, caught at nightly outdoor meetings in the South Wales ports of Cardiff and Swansea and in the uplands on the English-Welsh border...
...Steiner reported, diet seems to be the answer. Though many drug treatments have been proposed, he and his Columbia colleagues have not found any of them useful. But among 20 patients with hardening of the coronary arteries who were kept on a lowfat, low-cholesterol diet, 13 showed a noteworthy decrease in the amount of cholesterol in their blood, and some of these have been carefully followed and lab-tested for two years or more. This diet is not extreme or hard to follow, since it may include as much as two ounces of fat a day. The doctors exclude...
...blood pressure is poifick. It was 150 vitriolic and 98 diabolic . . . The doctor . . . said I had a coupla minor ailments and I says, 'That's funny. I never woiked in the mines ... So he told me I had fallen archeries . . . Since I went on that diet I ain't got no ulsters or no abominable trouble ... I had to practickly fast for a coupla days-jest a large cup of demitasse in the mornin' . . . He said I didn't have no sign of kodiak trouble around the heart or no coroner's trombone disease...
Complete study of the site should enable a team of workers to determine what climatic changes occurred that eliminated the horse from the diet. The same study will afford an opportunity to investigate changes in the living habits of the bands of hunters who occupied the area at various times, since preliminary examinations show a long record of successive occupations...