Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postponed its shooting schedule, sadly announced that it had shipped its 240-lb. singing star Mario Lanza (TIME, Aug. 6) off to the Oregon woods to diet, chop wood for a month,' and slim down to a reasonable...
...money, I'll eat the "deteriorating diet" of the Maoris of New Zealand and join the modern craze for fruits & vegetables. If more Americans would follow suit, we might better our sorry statistics: three out of four Americans eat an inadequate diet, short on fresh fruits and green vegetables...
...years younger than his 71. That is what he recently told a visiting party of Baltic physicians, as reported last week in an Estonian newspaper. "As you gentlemen can see," Stalin continued, puffing clouds of smoke, "I get older just like other people, but since I changed my diet-two years ago, I feel remarkably well, and I still smoke much, even though the tobacco in my pipe contains hardly any nicotine...
Surveying medical progress (or the lack of it) in dealing with tooth decay, in the New York State Journal of Medicine, Dr. Neumann finds a big hidden cavity in every current theory and practice. A well-balanced diet is not the answer: some of the world's worst-fed peoples have the best teeth. Vitamins have no observable effect. Dr. Neumann rules out heredity, climate and sunshine. The case for fluorine (TIME, April 9), he believes, is not proved...
...Reducing Diet. Lanza, who once weighed close to 300 Ibs., peeled down to a svelte 169 for his first movie, 1949's That Midnight Kiss; that time, Director Norman Taurog kept a scale on the set and weighed him in like a jockey every morning. His weight went up in 1950's The Toast of New Orleans, and again in his latest picture. "I gained weight on purpose during those pictures," insists Lanza, who is sensitive on the subject. "I wanted to look like Caruso, didn't I? What do they want to have...