Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Game, 'Adam Smith' (2) 3. The American Challenge, Servan-Schreiber (4) 4. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe (3) 5. Iberia, Michener (5) 6. The Case Against Congress, Pearson and Anderson 7. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (6) 8. The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Stillman and Baker (8) 9. Soul on Ice, Cleaver (7) 10. The Naked Ape, Morris...
...hitch in the Marines and five years spent on architectural work in Texas taught him, he says, just how stifling his boyhood had been. Then one day he decided that he ought to change his whole life. "I was too fat," he remembers; so he went on a diet. "I also told myself I should stop drinking and smoking. Along with that, I decided I should do what I really wanted to do-paint." He has stuck to painting ever since...
...walked away from the Commodities office with 25-pound sacks of peanuts. Another time in 1964 the total monthly distribution consisted of beets and celery. Even in the best months, there is an obvious lack of meat and other protein-rich foods. Department of Agriculture tables reveal that a diet based on commodities provides about 3 or 4 per cent of the protein needed for healthy development, and about 350 per cent of the fat and carbohydrate requirement...
...several years ago. In theory, it looked ideal: depending on their incomes, families could get food stamps worth up to $100 for as $3 or $4. The stamps could then be used in grocery stores to buy what the family wanted, freeing them from the limitations of a commodities diet...
Part of the nutritional problem is caused by ignorance and custom: the black Southern diet is based on the pig. Southern pigs yield some meat, but that doesn't last long. At pigkilling time--usually near the beginning of fall--families have a few meals of bacon and pork loin. From then on, dinner consists of the other pig parts--the ears, the tail, the chittlins (intestines), and--worst of all--the fatback...