Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tanzania has gone begging on the world market for food aid, but with modest success. The U.S. is providing 20,000 tons of grain as a grant and 40,000 more on easy credit, although it turned down a Tanzanian request for 200,000 tons of corn, the national diet staple, on the grounds that it has none to spare...
Used singly or in various combinations, these drugs have enabled physicians to offer the hypertensive something better and more certain than diet or surgery to control his disease. But they do not solve all the difficulties of dealing with high blood pressure. Many of the antihypertensive drugs can, and frequently do, produce undesirable side effects, such as impotence, dizziness and drowsiness. Doctors have learned to lessen these reactions by adjusting dosages or switching from one drug to another. Another problem was less easy to solve. Doctors had known for years that there are many forms of hypertension that affect different...
Until the end of World War II, doctors treated hypertensives, if they treated them at all, mainly by diet. Patients with high blood pressure were told to take off weight and lower their salt intakes. Some patients were put on an almost totally salt-free rice diet so unappealing that most of them abandoned it as soon as they left the hospital and medical supervision. A handful of doctors even tried surgery to depress blood pressure. The operation was called a sympathectomy; it cut certain nerves leading to the organs of the chest and abdomen on the theory that this...
...those who have high blood pressure, the outlook is bright. Exercise and diet groups to help hypertensives shape up are in operation in most major cities and many smaller communities. Researchers at Rockefeller University and other institutions are experimenting with biofeedback* to teach hypertensives to dilate their arteries and lower their blood pressures slightly. A Boston physician, Dr. Herbert Benson, has taught some of his patients to reduce their blood pressure by means of what he calls "relaxation response," a sort of transcendental-meditation technique...
...patient died of a stroke at 29. Other dropouts have been more fortunate. Helga Brown, 46, of San Francisco, followed her doctor's orders carefully for a year after a faulting episode revealed that she had high blood pressure; then she dropped both the drugs and her diet. She suffered a recurrence of dizziness and was hospitalized. She recovered and now takes her medication faithfully...