Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar phrase "scraping bottom" was heard whenever businessmen last week stopped discussing the President's credit plan to talk about trade. Just as a man can cut his diet down only to a certain point, apparently U. S. business had reached the lowest possible level of consumption. While general business held at the same level (68.6% by one index) three big industries showed the following...
...Vagabond is low in his mind; a situation which is exceedingly serious in the case of one whose eyes are habitually fixed on the furthest nebulae. His present intellectual depression is the result of a surfeit of extreme contrasts, a diet upon which he has subsisted entirely since returning to Widener's profound shades...
...blood. An enzyme is a digester. Dr. Rabinowitch's enzyme apparently destroys the insulin which the patient's pancreas manufactures itself or which the patient takes as medicine. Infections, like colds, stimulate the increase of this insulin-destroying enzyme. Infections are the diabetic's greatest danger. Fats in the diet also nourish the enzyme's increase. But?and this was startling since sugar has been considered the diabetic's bane?sugar destroys the enzyme. Dr. Rabinowitch has apparently proved his point and reoriented the treatment of diabetes by giving his patients foods low in fats, comparatively high in sugar. With...
...Costa Rica he photographed a rattlesnake which, instead of lunging from its coil as other rattlers do, raises its head about 18 in. from the ground and strikes viciously. In the same country he found evidence that it is diet, not climate, which makes the venom of some kinds of snakes more poisonous than the venom of the same kind of snakes in another locality. Stopping over at Havana he learned from one of his young animal gatherers that a few solenodons (molelike animals the size of small opossums) still exist along Cuba's southern shore. Mammalogists have feared...
...Alexander Hellwig, 42, of St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kan. doubted that theory. He had noted as had others that a diet low in iodine, high in calcium produced the most pronounced goiters. He believed there must be a positive cause for goitrous enlargement of the thyroid, probably calcium...