Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifteen years ago Harvard students drowned their troubles in liquor; last year they took to LSD. Today the get high on Macrobiotics, a brown rice diet said to produce euphoria within two or three days...
Maintaining our manners we asked if Mr. Kushi could really help us to better health, greater knowledge, and spiritual unity through a daily bowl of brown rice. Our neighbor, who said his name was Whittaker, told us he'd thought he felt well before he went on the Diet, but that Mr. Kushi had taken one look at his face and told him how sick...
...University of Tokyo I met Georges Ohsawa. He rediscovered the ancient yin-yang cosomology of Chinese emperor Fou-hi, who ruled about 2910 B.C. He taught me that man is unhappy because he feels divorced from the world. The dialectic of world peace can be achieved only through diet." He continued, describing how Ohsawa had founded several "sanarants," sanatorium restaurants, in France and six Macrobiotic restaurants in New York...
...Drinking Man's Diet? For modern man, Lent is hardly more austere than the Drinking Man's Diet-and it may soon be easier still. Technically, Orthodox Christians must abstain from meat, dairy and oil products; even among the devout, the rule is strictly followed only for the first and last weeks of Lent. Protestant churches leave Lenten sacrifice up to the individual conscience, although some follow a regime similar to the one observed by U.S. Catholics: only one full meal on weekdays, plus two smaller meatless meals, voluntary sacrifice of some additional pleasure, such as smoking...
...Instead of 40. Another proposal for updating Lent came from the Rt. Rev. Horace Donegan, Episcopal Bishop of New York. "It is less than honest to maintain that a Lent of 40 days is the final word for our age," he said in an Ash Wednesday sermon. "The Lenten diet is now possible only in exclusively religious establishments. The lengthy services with their glorious lessons have become unrealistic for men and women catching commuters' trains. The quiet pace of a 17th century Lent is impossible for people living in 20th century New York. I would gladly see Lent shortened...