Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other diet news of last fortnight: The 30-day test by three women of a basic diet of bananas and skimmed milk, supervised by Chicago's publicity-wise Health Commissioner Bundesen (TIME, May 21) ended with these results: Alice Joy lost 9½ lb., Felicia Terry lost 14 lb., Deon Craddock lost...
...Zephyr was able to make its record breaking run and Ralph Budd's face was saved. . . . EDWARD HUNGERFORD New York City Pastor's Fast Sirs: My friends have been having a jolly time about the little reference you made to our experiment on the relief diet [TIME, May 21]. . . . We were simply trying out the regular FERA allowance for food. The Rev. Charles C. Noble of this city went on the City Store, and the results of his experiment will be of very great value to the authorities broadening the diet which has been allowed to those...
...bananas and a glass of skimmed milk was all the nourishment that Alice Joy received at any meal. Drs. Bundesen and Fishbein also allowed her some coffee and tea (without sugar or cream) and large quantities of water. A week of that diet lost her 4½ lb., brought her down to 135¾ lb., made her whimper: "I'm hungry. And I'm tired. I couldn't lick a kitten...
Felicia Terry followed the same diet, plus a bit of liver at dinner, and fell from...
...third woman, Deon Craddock, followed a mixed diet of cereals, eggs, potatoes, vegetables and ice cream ranging between 1,100 and 1,200 calories per day. After a week she had reduced 2⅜ lb. to 142⅜ lb. The three expect to continue their "diet derby" until the month's end. But they are not altogether happy about the springtime sideshow they are providing for Chicago. Dr. Fishbein gave a lugubrious interview about their glands. Dr. Bundesen was making them believe themselves larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound...