Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...milk, to make plastics and fabrics. Another of Mr. Ford's preoccupations is soybeans, which can be grown cheaply almost anywhere, yield oil for automobile lacquers, meal for plastic parts like horn buttons. Incidentally, soybeans are nutritious and soybean preparations figure prominently in Mr. Ford's present diet...
Several months ago, said Dr. Patton, a worried dog owner consulted him about the howling and staggering of his sturdy, thoroughbred dogs. Dr. Patton found that ten days before, the owner had taken his dogs off a special diet rich in vitamin B1 (found in whole cereals, meat, milk and eggs). He now fed them nothing but starchy dog food. When Dr. Patton gave the dogs meat and a well-balanced dog-food diet again, they made "a rapid and prompt recovery...
...argued that Naziism has a mass base, even though forced contributions (party dues, winter relief, etc.) subtract considerably from workers' incomes. The decline in quality is most noticeable in upper and middle class goods; working class goods are maintained in comparative quality and abundance. The German lower class diet, however, has always been heavily weighted with potatoes, cabbage and bread, and in consequence working class food standards have not very much room in which to fall. The one real gain the "little man" in Germany has over his 1932 condition is assurance of employment...
...seizures. To test their hunch, the doctors placed 14 epileptic children under the care of a coach, who helped them develop "athlete's heart" through a strenuous program of rowing, running, basketball, football. At the same time the patients were placed on the traditional low-water diet, to dehydrate their brains and allow a greater volume of blood within their skulls. Within two months, all but one of the patients were completely free from attacks...
...taken out on a high-school party to celebrate a successful football season, and broke his training by gorging himself on pop, ice cream, and hot dogs. Within five days, in spite of his well-developed physique, he had three epileptic seizures. A return to his low-water diet ended his attacks, and he has had none since...