Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Imperial Gesture. Four days after this protest the Son of Heaven himself donated 4,800,000 yen (currently $1,200,000) from his privy purse to relieve distress among Japanese farmers, fishermen and tradesmen on the eve of the opening of a special session of the Diet...
Special Session. Correspondents expect that it will be a very special session of the Diet indeed. Reports persisted that to offset the coming publication of the League report on Manchuria, which it is generally expected will hold Japan guilty of aggression in Manchuria, Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida will echo an idea which Japanese say was tossed off by the late great Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 in one of his imperialistic moments: a Japanese expanded Monroe Doctrine, by which Japan will announce herself the guardian and protector of new Asiatic nations during their adolescence...
Each & every U. S. citizen last year swallowed 133.2 lb. of meat inclusive of goats. Since the end of the beefsteak era meat consumption has tended to decrease. Pork has supplanted beef as the prime item of U. S. meat diet. Highest per capita meat consumption was in the panic year 1907?155.1 lb. As Food Administrator, Herbert Clark Hoover brought it down to 120 lb. in 1917, but it had climbed back to 149.7 lb. by 1924. Theories of balanced rations and a trend to vegetarianism have since cut it down sharply...
...attention to a much neglected type of sick man. His doctor may have prescribed for his defects. But, noted Lord Dawson, "the mere giving of medicines will often accomplish but little. What the patient wants is regimen and re-education in methods of living; treatment, it may be by diet, physicotherapy. and relaxation under controlled observation. Such treatment or education of the man and his tissues might take several weeks, and in most instances it would be advantageous for such patients to continue their ordinary avocations. We need a new type of institution?distinct from hospital provision?namely, a Health...
...patient is starved of carbohydrates. As a substitute for the body's insulin the patient is given injections of commercial insulin prepared from the pancreas of hogs or oxen. But to regulate the action of the insulin (i.e., prevent too great a reduction of blood sugar) a strict diet must be observed. The danger of insulin treatment is that the patient by relaxing his diet may get an hypoglycemic shock-break into a cold sweat, have convulsions, collapse. Unless a physician is on hand to give an injection of glucose solution he may even...