Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief among the English sources of revenue is salt; but unfortunately it is a no less important part of Indian diet. In choosing the manufacture of salt as the starting point of his campaign, Gandhi enlisted the sympathies of India's masses whose average wage of three cents a day renders government Salt prices almost prohibitive. Religion is deeply rooted in India's soil; by investing his pilgrimage with religious fervor, Gandhi makes further universal appeal...
Since 1906 pellagra has been a horror to the South. In the springtime it strikes people whose winter diet has been confined too closely to corn and pork. The first symptoms: dizziness, headaches, diarrhoea, painful skin rash...
...late Dr. Joseph Goldberger of the U. S. Public Health Service, after working in the South, flouted medical men who had thought for 200 years that pellagra was infectious, by announcing that it was a result of a poorly balanced diet. To prove his point he had himself, his wife and 14 assistants inoculated with the blood of an infected woman. They suffered no ill effects...
...opposing school of thought holds that pellagra is due to an infectious agent which is allowed to grow in the body, due to its rundown condition. Both sides arrive at the same conclusion: proper diet is a preventive and cure...
...deaf that his intimates must shout close to his ear, so old that diet and digestion are matters of hourly concern to him, so famed that his stalest bromides on national questions can command national attention and respect (see p. 16), Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, 83, continued last week a living though not a lively man, plodding on with life's-end work in his Fort Myers, Fla., winter laboratory. Whether or not he lives to accomplish his latest work?finding a new source of rubber?he had lived to see a semi-official national celebration of his first great...