Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Changed Dream. More than the people's diet is involved The hard realities of nature had forced Peking's planners to recognize that despite all their emphasis on new steel plants, and the heady dream of transforming China overnight into a powerful industrial nation, China was still what it had always been-a country whose very livelihood depended on agriculture. Agricultural exports are still the major source of the foreign exchange that the Communists desperately need to buy machinery and tools. That recognition had brought about, almost unnoticed, a basic shift in Peking's official line...
...that can starve the heart or brain and cause death. A major part of the evidence comes from Dr. Keys, whose studies of foreign populations, concentration-camp victims and Minnesota businessmen suggested that the high U.S. rate of heart-artery disease might be blamed on the fat-heavy American diet...
...products (whole milk, butter, cream, cheese) were identified by the A.H.A. as cholesterol-producing villains, fought back fiercely. "The idea that replacing some 'saturated' fats [animal and hydrogenated fats] with 'unsaturated' fats will help prevent heart disease is clearly unproved," said the council. Manipulating the diet in favor of unsaturated fats (chiefly liquid vegetable oils), suggested the council darkly, could even be dangerous to health...
...principle, all the food that Russians eat comes, or should come, from either collective or state-owned farms. But in stubborn practice, an astonishingly high proportion of the Russian diet, especially on its tastier side, is still supplied by private farming. Last week a new Soviet handbook provided statistics...
...before the birth of Christ, and viewed the Dead Sea Scrolls. Near the town of Nablus, Dr. Fisher, fortified with a strong dose of stomach salts, drank freely from Jacob's Well. (The archbishop, said his staff, was holding up well under the rigors of the Middle Eastern diet.) He looked at the ruins where Salome danced, saw the site where John the Baptist was beheaded. At the River Jordan, the archbishop refused to be totally immersed, instead dipped his foot in the waters...