Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking special measures to conserve and spur his strength. "The Holy Father, in cases where an elevator is not available, now uses a sedan chair," said a high Vatican official last week. "During the hottest weather, after receiving enormous numbers of pilgrims, he sometimes varies his abstemious diet, partaking of a little iced champagne...
...Five-grain doses, or slightly less reduced fat men and women two pounds a week without exercise or diet, made them feel better and more active. The investigators suggest that this dinitrophenol dose be tried cautiously for myxedema and other phenomena of sub-functioning thyroids...
...highest number of human cancers occur in the digestive tract below the esophagus, the same does not hold true for beasts. Of all the mouse autopsies she has performed, about 15,000 were cancerous mice, but only about 25 had intestinal tumors. The difference probably lies in the diet. For long years her mice received the same diet (mostly fresh bread, twice-pasteurized whole milk, timothy hay and bird seed). Thus most of their cancers came from irritations, cage-rubbing, fights, minor infections. This does not disprove her heredity theory, for the cancers occur only in the susceptible animals. Lately...
...Eaton mentioned last time, fed his long-suffering students, according to contemporary accounts, "hasty pudding with goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." Before skipping this plainspoken, if indelicate piece of seventeenth-century realism the early prevalence of Hasty pudding in the diet should be noted. For more than 200 years the staple food here, this pudding is now remembered only in the name of the largest and second oldest club (1790). It probably needed no doctoring to make it disagreeable as it was pretty meagre stuff anyway...
Under this new plan a radical change in the diet occured. Previously breakfast had consisted of bread and beer, supper, milk instead of beer; and a pound of meat for each man to make a satisfying dinner. The University Comptrollers however, went in strongly for lamb, just as our present stewards have recently done well by the strawberry trade, and the students quickly tired of the new regime. They crowded around the Steward's rooms and set up loud bleatings and baaings until the offending lamb was varied with other meats and vegetables. But the food continued poor in quality...