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...newspaperman sent his Chinese assistant to cover a dinner eaten by Japanese officials and their Chinese puppets. The assistant reported as follows...
...Heiser quoted a now-classic experiment : "Sir Robert McCarrison established in India [in the early 1920s] a thoroughly healthy rat colony. The [1,189] stock rats were fed a diet similar to that eaten by certain peoples of northern India, among whom are some of the finest physical specimens of mankind. The diet consisted of whole-wheat flour, unleavened bread lightly smeared with fresh butter, sprouted Bengal gram (legume), fresh raw carrots and cabbage, unboiled whole milk, a small ration of raw meat with bones once a week. . . . During two and a quarter years [about 70 years for human beings...
Another group of 2,243 rats was given food eaten by natives of southern India, who are puny and disease-ridden. Their menu, cereal grains and vegetable fats, no milk, butter or fresh vegetables. Not only were these rats stricken with well-known deficiency diseases such as pernicious anemia (lack of iron), goiter (lack of iodine), beriberi (lack of vitamin B), but they also developed pneumonia, pleurisy, deafness, adenoids, eye ulcers, kidney stones, gastric ulcers, heart disease, skin infections...
...freeze up. People wanted to paw him and he did not like to be pawed. Women wanted to kiss him and he angrily pulled away. Because he kept a distance, the public became more hysterical. In St. Louis, after he had left an outdoor table where he had eaten-as heartily as usual-with fellow officers of his old squadron, he finally saw what he was up against: women broke through the lines and fought for the still damp corncobs which he had chewed clean and left in a small mountain beside his plate...
...younger brother," he sat down on a bench. But Billy, instead of getting better, felt worse and worse; finally Vag thought discretion the better part of valor, and he took Billy down the corridor towards the exit. As he left the fragrant Garden he kept wishing that he had eaten all of Billy's hot dog while...