Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School researchers are currently conducting animal experiments in an effort to isolate the effects of the potassium deficiencies that may result from unsupervised adherence to a new "fad" diet--predigested liquid proteins--Dr. George L. Blackburn, director of the nutrition support service at New England Deaconness Hospital, said yesterday...
Blackburn and three other researchers began the experiments on rats this fall following the deaths of 12 persons using the liquid protein weight-loss diet. Blackburn said yesterday he believes potassium deficiencies were partly or wholly responsible for the deaths...
...Radcliffe student who has used the diet intermittently during the last six months said yesterday the orange- and cherry-flavored liquid protein tastes terrible, but is very effective in helping to shed pounds. She complained of small side effects--muscle spasms and teeth "feeling loose," and said she is afraid the diet "isn't really healthy...
...addition to overseeing the areas sketched above--a full-time job in itself--the committee has much more to do in the future. First, there is continued follow-up on its series of hearings on Diet and Disease. In the course of these hearings the committee found that poor diet--both under- and over-consumption--contributes to six ot the ten leading fatal diseases in this country. As a first attack on this problem, the committee published in January of this year a report entitled Dietary Goals for the United States. It outlined recommendations for action by government, industry...
...changed since Seneca's day. Old age is as inevitable now as it was 2,000 years ago. Despite jogging's obvious benefits (for some people), it can do no more than slow the decline of the heart and lungs. The most conscientious exercises, careful diet and cautious life-style cannot halt the gradual hardening of the arteries, or prevent the reduced output of critical hormones, or bring a cessation to the wholesale death of brain cells. Such holding actions as face-lifts and skin treatments are ultimately futile. They do not stop the stiffening of tissue that...