Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seed, fertilizers and equipment; and heavy investment in agricultural schools, roads, plus storage, market and irrigation facilities. The food-poor nations, concludes FAO Director B. R. Sen, must quadruple their output in the next 35 years "to give their vastly increased populations an adequate, though in no sense lavish diet...
Satisfied that both diet and drugs had already been tried, Dr. Troncelliti decided on heroic measures. He prescribed a jejuno-colostomy (short-circuiting most of the small bowel), an operation devised in 1912 for patients suffering from incurable metabolic defects. Because the body absorbs most of its fats through the wall of the lower small bowel, by drastically shortening that absorbing wall the surgeon hoped to limit his patient's assimilation of fat calories...
...medical advisers approved. For a man about to undergo major surgery, he was clearly overweight. So Lyndon, who fights a constant, losing battle to subdue his passion for pies and chocolate bars, went on a strict diet. Thus the President had seldom seemed in better shape (down from 220 to 202 lbs.) when he flew up to Manhattan the day before the Pope's visit, to sign the new immigration bill in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. Next afternoon, after Pope and President had conferred privately for 46 minutes in a 35th floor suite at the Waldorf...
...worst and most general health problem in the Amazon, says the fleet's health director, Dr. Max Benzake, is simple malnutrition. The basic staples in the area are yuca, bananas, some fish and wild game-a diet woefully deficient in protein. Children almost never get milk. Everybody drinks polluted water, and so practically everybody has a variety of intestinal parasites...
...Diet. On the day after splashdown, they were flown to Cape Kennedy to begin eleven days of even more intensive physical checkups and debriefings. The exams showed that Cooper and Conrad were not so fatigued as the men of the four-day Gemini 4. For one reason, the Gemini 5 astronauts were able to get six or seven hours of sleep daily after the first few crucial days. When they slept in orbit, their heartbeats dropped to the high 30s. As they maneuvered their spacecraft and performed experiments, the beats rose to the 60s and 70s, which is about normal...