Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marked difference in the two groups? Heredity was ruled out. Both groups came from white northern European stock, had similar histories of family disease. The grandparents of the high school men were even slightly longer-lived. Personal habits were not the answer. Both groups had about the same diet, though the high school men ate less for breakfast, more between meals...
Stirs & Stripes. In Lakeland, Fla., ten prisoners at the city stockade were put on a three-day diet of bread and water after staging a sit-down strike and refusing "to work in stripes like criminals...
...Because they had adopted the Ashkenazic diet with plenty of meat and especially fats...
...Diet. Last week Dr. Brunner had carried his findings over to diabetes. This disorder, he has found, occurs in 1.1% of the general population, in .55% of the early returning Yemenites, but in only 055% of the latecomers. And whereas diabetics in general have a high incidence of complications, notably atherosclerosis and changes in the eye (which may lead to blindness), Yemenite diabetics showed none of these. Main reason for their immunity on this score, said Dr. Brunner, is that diabetic Yemenites stay on their low-protein, lowfat, high-carbohydrate diet...
...patients in other groups have been subject to whims of medical fashion, usually leaning to the high-protein side and cutting down on starches. Dr. Brunner suggests that by copying the Yemenite diet (63% carbohydrates), diabetics might slow down, or perhaps even prevent, development of the worst complications of their diseases...