Word: diets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard traveling," she went out, as the reporter nodded his sympathy and thought uncomplimentary things about anyone who would make Merilyn work so hard, and life spent at inferior hotels, my mother insisted upon strict obedience to the routine she had laid out for me. The question of diet was a big one. I was warned under no circumstances should an actress permit herself to get fat. This also applies to college men. I warn them against ice cream potatoes, cake, rice, or anything with much sugar if they want to keep their perfect...
...Strict adherence to diet and hard work has been responsible for the fact that I never weighed more than 118 pounds in my life...
...anyone at Harvard wants to go on the stage and be successful as an actress I would advocate for him hard work and temperate living, a careful diet, continued practice, strict attention to dance and music lessons, an hour a day with dramatic instructor, and, above all, never to get fat, and," concluded Marilyn with a wink, "nobody ever accused me of being facetious...
...George R. Minot and William P. Murphy and applied by Dr. Walter W. Palmer of the Manhattan College of Physicians & Surgeons, has shown such good results at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, that doctors are telling each other of it. The treatment consists of feeding anemic patients a regulated diet of liver, kidneys and chicken gizzards. These foods contain iron and easily assimilated proteins which the victims need, but which their blood does not manufacture in sufficient quantity...
...importance given to athletics in colleges and universities comes some interesting news from Michigan. The Battle Creek College, it is announced, has made use of its, football squad during the post season in the conducting of biological experiments. The men who ate at the training tables were given a diet which did not include any meat, and in place of this item of food they were given certain of the constituent elements of animal flesh in the form of chemical compounds such as food ferrin (iron) and lacto-dexterin. And since the Battle Creek College lost only two games...