Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built for an animal or a human"). During the day, he was allowed to venture only 125 feet away from his "hooch," and spent most of his time cutting firewood, setting traps and snares for mice, snakes and wild animals that would spice up his daily diet of rice and fish. He tried to keep busy at all times. "You do anything to keep your mind occupied," he said. "Your mental attitude is what determines whether you live...
MEDICAL researchers studying heart disease are coming reluctantly to a revolutionary conclusion. The Federal Government, they suggest, may have to intervene and decree a radical change in the prevailing American diet. This would involve taking most of the fat out of those marbled steaks and from those billions of gallons of milk, as well as altering the chemical constitution of cooking oils and fats...
...such a suggestion. But more and more investigators are beginning to despair of finding any other way to combat the ravages of heart disease, which results largely, they believe, from overindulgence in foods that are too rich in animal fats and sugar. Of course, no responsible researcher believes that diet is the sole cause of atherosclerosis, the form of coronary artery disease that leads to most heart attacks. Nonetheless, diet seems to be the factor most susceptible to correction...
...need for a blue-ribbon faculty committee to think about the year 3000. Some random real questions: What happens to people when they are not anxious or competitive? Is schizophrenia normal in technological civilization? What kinds of films do black kids in Roxbury make? What is the influence of diet, say macrobiotics, for example, on the mind...
Communist jargon and classical music are the usual radio diet of the Soviet citizen. But during five years of U.S.-Soviet detente, listeners in the Soviet Union had a simple alternative. A flick of the dial pulled in Western news, commentary-and even the throbbing beat of hard rock music. Moscow's decision in June 1963 to abandon jamming Western programs was an indication of the U.S.S.R.'s interest in a rapprochement with the Western world. Now the jamming is on again...