Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite the heart attack she suffered five months ago, "I went to a Catholic Mass and prayed," she said, in her Chicago home. "I'm a Baptist, but I believe there's only one God." One thing taken away for good, however, with the aid of a diet, are 50 of Mahalia's original 250 Ibs. "Doctors say I have to lose at least 25 more Ibs.," she laughs, "But I'm afraid I'll end up looking like a skeleton...
Medical Sciences: A mild form of neuropathology which could be alleviated by a balanced diet...
...liver oil) of vitamin D, now irradiated in a goodly portion of the nation's milk. Though retired from his last post, as professor of biochemistry at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, he writes and conducts experiments there, at 85 a lively testimonial to the balanced diet (in his case, it includes two glasses of buttermilk a day). This week he will accept the first $1,000 McCollum Award from the American Society for Clinical Nutrition...
Muzzles & Meatballs. The tracks make such a big deal out of keeping the sport clean that racing hounds even have the color of their toenails recorded for identification. During race meetings, the dogs are kenneled at the track, are constantly muzzled, fed nothing but a carefully supervised diet of vegetables, vitamins, horse meat and beef. On race days, they are confined to guarded cages to make sure that nobody throws them a "meatball"-a wad of hamburger laced with a stimulant or depressant-and they are given postrace drug tests, just like horses. The tests are so exacting, in fact...
...hint of trouble until about four years ago. Then, during a routine checkup, Manhattan's Dr. Arthur Antenucci diagnosed an aneurysm that required watching. But it was too small at the time to justify the major surgery that would be involved in its removal. No special diet was needed, no drugs. How little distress the aneurysm caused the duke is shown by the fact that he was able to keep working steadily for most of this year on his movie, A King's Story...