Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcry was raised at the spending of $600,000 last year to build a palace for Akihito and $500,000 this year to replace Hirohito's air-raid shelter at long last. By 1966 the Emperor will have a second $2,500,000 palace for official functions. The Diet will increase his personal budget from $140,000 to $168,000 this year. In reciprocal generosity, the Emperor plans to turn a third of his 275-acre grounds into a public park...
...Americans eat too much fat. With meat, milk, butter and ice cream, the calorie-heavy U.S. diet is 40% fat, and most of that is saturated fat-the insidious kind, says Dr. Keys, that increases blood cholesterol, damages arteries, and leads to coronary disease...
...part of the public wants to know facts about diet and health, and a big group of U.S. scientists wants to supply them. The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K (for Keys) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well and Stay Well. From his birch-paneled office in the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, under the university's football stadium in Minneapolis ("We get a rumble on every touchdown"), blocky, grey-haired Dr. Keys directs an ambitious...
What concerns him much more is the relationship of diet to the nation's No. 1 killer: coronary artery disease, which accounts for more than half of all heart fatalities and kills 500,000 Americans a year-twice the toll from all varieties of cancer, five times the deaths from automobile accidents...
Marbled Meat. Thus, says Physiologist Keys, the big cut in reducing U.S. fat intake should come in the popular saturated fats which, although more expensive, have become a bigger and bigger part of the American diet. Restaurants take pride in heavily marbled meat. Most margarine manufacturers "convert liquid fats into partly saturated solids by "hydrogenating" them-that is, by forcing hydrogen atoms onto the liquid fat molecules. Dairy farmers are paid more for milk with high butterfat content. Keys is a milk drinker himself-but only of modified skim milk that contains a maximum of 2% butterfat...