Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pact have, M. Briand states, "opened a way for France to maintain her present figure." Though this would mean naval stabilization, it would also mean an ever larger building program. It does not seem likely that the fat figures of Mussolini's Italy will accept a more painful reducing diet than France. Mr. Friedrich, who is interviewed in this issue, points to a less superficial reason for this apparent failure which he finds in the pressure of big business on government. At any rate, newspaper correspondents have come to the conclusion that the French figures must be accepted or auxiliary...
Taft's four years in the White House were not happy ones. Mrs. Taft was an invalid. He lost control of Congress at midterm. Roosevelt turned viciously upon him. But, withal, he kept his good humor, jested about going on a diet as he ate his customary White House breakfast of two oranges, a 12 oz. steak, creamy, sugary coffee, toast thick with butter...
...Vitamin B was found in Jessie's milk after Vitamin B had been deleted from her diet. Puzzled, experimenters cut a hole in Jessie's side, inserted a rubber tube, periodically examined the contents of her stomach. Ninety per cent of the bacteria in rumen were discovered to be of a new kind, flavobacterium vitarumen. Bacteriologist Ralph Porter Tittsler began investigating the bacteria in Jessie's stomach to discover what influence salt and other chemicals had upon the digestive processes of cows...
...result that many nourishing plants, hitherto unknown in Iceland, sprouted and flourished last summer. But the Icelanders were not particularly pleased. They obey by instinct Explorer Stefansson's rule: A people react with pleasure to a new food in proportion as they have been accustomed to a varied diet. Accustomed to an unvarying fish, smoked mutton, cheese and potato diet the Icelanders view green vegetables with alarm. They delight, however, in repeating that "Proportional to the number of Icelanders our Reykjavik is the largest capital city in the world!" By this they mean that one quarter of the population...
...Kent emphasizes the importance of education to health as follows: "Physicians and dentists are teaching their patients the value of observing the various common rules of hygiene sanitation, personal cleanliness and proper diet and yet there are some who have not fully appreciated that an unclean mouth is a most prolific source of danger to the health of the individual, or that a disregard for the principles of correct living often expresses itself in the teeth or their supporting structures by causing either or both to break down...