Word: diets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether chapel is attractive and interesting or not; and if the authorities really think, as they assuredly must, that they are giving the right kind of dose, they have no excuse for changing their prescription. On the other hand, since this desire for a more earthly diet comes from the student publication, it indicates at least a little dissatisfaction, which the powers that be can disregard or not depending on their confidence in the student's judgment and intellectual tastes...
Kinney, the Apthorp monkey who disappeared a week ago Saturday, returned to his winter apartments last night, tired of his diet of "The Book of Knowledge" and linoleum rugs on which he had been living in an East Cambridge boarding house. At eight o'clock yesterday evening a taxicab, with closed doors, stopped before the Crimson Building while the driver and three owners coaxed, ordered and finally forced the evasive guest into a box preparatory to removing him to his old quarters...
...through his glasses and snapping his eyes as he talks in little grunting periods. He will slouch down on a couch, then tell you a story as though it were being shot at you from some great distance. The last time I saw him he was complaining of a diet that was being imposed upon him, which he insisted was nothing but "rabbit's food...
...Herbert M. Evans and Dr. Katharine S. Bishop, of the University of California.* They call it ";Vitamin X." "Vitamins," now so popular, were unknown ten years ago. They have not been isolated. They cannot be seen or weighed. They came to light only when it was found that diets apparently perfectly balanced according to pre-existent information did not provide proper nourishment in some cases arid even brought on certain "; deficiency "; diseases (e. g., scurvy, beriberi, pellagra). There are three major vitamins (Fat-soluble A, Water-soluble B, Water-soluble C), and all three must be present in any correct...
When female rats were raised (by Doctors Evans and Bishop) on a standard synthetic diet used in animal laboratories, containing vitamins A and B, they became fat, sleek and healthy, but practically all of them were sterile. When fresh green lettuce leaves were added to their menu, the sterile rats produced litters. Drs. Evans and Bishop found this X-substance also in the whole-wheat grain, egg yolk, beef liver and some other foods, but not in milk, the otherwise perfect food. The absence of Vitamin X affects the reproductive powers of the male, as well as the female...