Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee on dietetics, he and his colleagues have been asked to put their seal of approval on just about every weight-reducing regimen ever devised by man. The answer has always been the same. Not only did Mayo never lend its name to the so-called Mayo Clinic Diet, Dr. Hoffman told the Grocery Manufacturers of America, but the clinic is equally scornful of just about every other popularized formula for reducing...
After listing such names as "Air Force Diet," "Astronaut Diet," "Airlines Pilot Diet," "Grapefruit Diet," "Low Carbohydrate Diet" and "Drinking Man's Diet," Dr. Hoffman said: "I would like to take this opportunity to specifically disclaim any association with or responsibility by the Mayo Clinic for any of them." The best program for the person who is overweight, he added, is simply to eat less. "There is little if any evidence for the success of any method which does not restrict calorie intake to a level below body energy needs...
...rodents was healing noticeably faster than the others. Painstaking detective work finally uncovered a possible explanation: the fast-healing rats had been eating food contaminated with compounds of zinc. To check their suspicions, the researchers experimented with 600 rats and confirmed that the presence of zinc in the diet aided rat-tissue regrowth after injury...
Died. Beth Ann Simon, 24, a New Jersey housewife who nine months ago sought spiritual relief in the austere, so-called longevity-promoting diet prescribed by Japanese Zen Philosopher George Ohsawa (Zen Macrobiotics), thereafter subsisting chiefly on whole-grain cereal; apparently of malnutrition, her weight having dropped from 120 Ibs. to 70 Ibs.; in Clifton...
...their calling. "I've lived four years of my life in fear," one of them is supposed to have said, "and I'll live the rest of it in shame." Author Corey Ford, who is best known as a humorist (The Horse of Another Color, Never Say Diet), has conscientiously researched his story about the origins of U.S. espionage. His thoroughness is laudable. But the Culper Ring just did not do enough spying to fill a book...