Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experiment in preventive medicine! Instead of waiting until illness strikes, the project will try to keep the families healthy through the combined forces of clinical medicine, social work, psychology, psychiatry and education. A public-health nurse will visit the Baturas and the other 19 families to discuss and prescribe diet, recreation and rest habits. The psychiatric social worker will try to spot tensions within the families which might upset either mental or physical health...
...Radio) is a ferocious vegetable, eight feet tall, delivered on a flying saucer from another world. It bleeds green, howls like an aggravated banshee, multiplies by dropping seeds into the earth. It thinks like Einstein, looks like Frankenstein's monster and, like Dracula, thrives only on a diet of human blood...
Vogeler continued: "There were periods when the diet was not sufficient. If I was to make an appearance before a high officer I was fattened up a little...
...about Gayelord (molasses & yogurt) Hauser in Cosmopolitan threw a faint ray of light on the dietitian's onetime romance with Greta Garbo. "She was lonely, shy . . ." wrote Ernest Lehman. "Gayelord was gregarious, expansive and as full of self-confidence as he was of vegetable juice ... He supervised her diet, her health, her mode of living. They made garlic juice together...
Spoiled Rice. Beriberi in the rice bowl proved to be one of the simplest diseases to prevent and cure. It is caused by a vitamin (mainly BI) deficiency and can be stopped by putting enough BI in the diet.-There is plenty of BI in the outer coating of the rice grain and its seed germ, but both are removed as bran in the milling. Nearly all of the world's billion rice-eaters mill and polish their grain. They eat vitamin-poor white rice, and feed the vitamin-rich bran to their chickens...