Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excited about flights to outer space as if they had been picked for a trip to Jupiter; they feel that they are doing as much as anybody to make such a journey possible. The dedicated 18 are trying to live for six months on an entirely synthetic, cold liquid diet...
...idea for the diet originated ten years ago with Dr. Milton Winitz, 39, while he was working with amino acids in cancer research. The amino acids are the so-called building blocks of protein; theoretically, a man could live on them if he also got a seasoning of a few vitamins and minute amounts of other body chemicals...
Soon after Sputnik, Dr. Winitz began working on an amino-acid diet with Dr. Wallace L. Chan, a NASA consultant on synthetic foods. Now, with a $400,000 grant from NASA, they are continuing their research at Vacaville. There, each week, they make 30 gallons of their Human Diet...
...Years in a Capsule? To accustom the men to the rigorous confinement of the test, Medical Director Neil F. Gallagher gave them two weeks of conditioning before they switched to the liquid diet on Labor Day. Some of Diet No. 9's advantages for space flight are already apparent. The men have lost weight, but the loss seems to have been all fat; their muscle tone is still good. They have a bowel movement only every five or six days. Their mental alertness seems to have improved. Their morale is so good that several of them are talking expectantly...
Both types wanted to go to jail very badly at the beginning of the summer. Among the coffee house-fast freight-self-defense for the Negro-rice diet set, going to jail must be worth about as many points as a hitch-hike to southeastern Peru. And the simple yen for jail was the force behind their organizing. For several days, they moved around the circle of the very committed Negroes, assuring those who least needed it that this time demonstrations would be big and effective, and persuaded in turn by the inevitable enthusiasm of the Movement regulars that maybe...