Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diet of Yemenite Jews. See MEDICINE, Jews & Disease...
...with rage, the opposition Socialists launched a filibustering delaying action. They declared themselves fearful of "remilitarization," charged that the pact would make Japan a target in some future nuclear war between the West and Communism. When Kishi moved to end the uproar by using his clear majority in the Diet to ram through ratification, the opposition last week took to the streets...
...wide, tree-lined boulevard leading to the Diet, some 6,000 fanatical students of the Zengakuren federation (who are so militant they consider Communists "sissified") surged against a barricade of police trucks drawn up before the Diet. In a wild melee of flying fists and thumping night sticks the police drove them back time and again. As darkness fell, the rioters were beaten at a cost of 18 seriously injured and 100 with minor bumps and bruises...
Coronary artery disease, medical scientists have long suspected, is closely related to diet. So is diabetes. These suspicions have now been strengthened by close observation of one of the Orient's most ancient communities, preserved like a fly in amber for some 2,500 years. The observed are Jews who migrated from Yemen to Israel; the observers are European-trained immigrants to Israel...
...grinding poverty they worked hard physically, grew up lean and tough on a Spartan diet packed with starches-black bread (using 85% of the wheat grain), white and sweet potatoes, rice-as well as peppers, onions, tomatoes, peanuts, oranges, sesame seeds and abundant raw carrots. A minimum of food was cooked...