Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.M.A. experts had waited for years to commit themselves. As a result, the council was able to make a point that has only recently become clear to researchers: merely cutting down the amount of fat in the diet is not the way to lower the blood cholesterol. This is because less overall fat usually means an increase in consumption of carbohydrates (sugars and starches), which the body somehow converts into fats known as triglycerides. The right way, said the council, is to replace much of the saturated fat (in eggs, meat and dairy products) with the polyunsaturated forms found...
While the A.M.A. council shied away from recommending an overall cut in dietary fats, neither did it go so far as some do-it-yourself prescribers such as Dr. Herman (Calories Don't Count) Taller, who recommends a carefree 65% fat diet. The A.M.A. favors a balanced diet, with not more than 40% fats...
...dramatists to flee the earthly confines of Naturalism for a more rarefied atmosphere of theatrical expression, the theatres of the so-called "Boulevard" (as opposed to the official theatres on the one hand, and the avant-garde houses on the other) continued to provide the public with a steady diet of light and unpretentious works of conventional stamp, untouched by Symbolism, Decadence, or Wagnerian innovation. In such productions the gamut of quality was understandably a wide one. Many of them, perhaps most, were concocted by second- or third-rate hacks, destined to make less than a ripple on theatrical tides...
...preponderant conventional beliefs? We believe that much of the tremendous success of the book is due to the satisfaction of readers with the results they obtained through following the dietary regimen recommended in the book. We consider that we had an absolute right to publish a theory of diet by a reputable physician...
...conspicuously pretty blonde, were always making news, and Mrs. Pickman was kept busy berating the newspapers for printing pictures of them. Both were avid rooters for the Bruins hockey team; they knew all the players' names, and it was even rumored that on occasion Ceezee varied her diet of Harvard boys to go out with some of the squad. "She was always very democratic," recalls a contemporary...