Word: diets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual meeting, last fortnight, of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia-founded by Benjamin Franklin-Dr. Alfred Fabian Hess of Manhattan, famed vitamin-searcher, revealed results of his latest researches in the study of Vitamin D, which everyone knows is the one whose presence in the diet prevents rickets. Searcher Hess had found Vitamin D in fish-eggs, chicken-eggs, snake-eggs, as material for the early development of the species...
Stefansson, who has lived among the Eskimos on a meat and water diet for a period of seven years, will speak on the "Effects of Meat Diet on Eskimos and White Men." Professor E.A. Hooton of the University is collaborating with Stefansson in a series of experiments to lest the effect upon health of an all meat diet...
Since early this year Stefansson and Karsten Anderson, his assistant, have been on a meat and water diet. They will continue this diet until next winter. A committee of ten scientists and physicians is observing the results of the experiment...
Japanese were apprehensive, last week, as there assembled for the first time the newly elected Imperial Diet (TIME, March 5). So closely are the two major factions* matched in strength, that it seemed impossible for the Prime Minister, doughty General Baron Güchi Tanaka, to command a majority...
...Okura, 91, millionaire merchant of Tokyo, in control of some 63 firms (hotels, theatres, steamships, shoe factories, breweries, etc.) in China and Japan; at Tokyo. Baron Okura spent $1,000,000 in a five day celebration on his 88th birthday; at 91 he proclaimed his longevity due to a diet of rice and eels...