Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Auto Workers, Dutch Defense Ministry officials and generals meet monthly with the brass of the soldiers' union at negotiating sessions. The union is now bargaining for overtime compensation as well as free travel on the railroads for soldiers going home on weekends, meal coupons so that they can eat in restaurants rather than mess halls and, somewhat more vaguely, general "democratization and humanization" of the army itself. Indeed, the draftees' union has been so successful that the noncommissioned officers, with three unions of their own, are becoming increasingly militant. There is even a union for officers...
DIET. Modern studies have strengthened the connection between salt intake and pulse changes. Tribesmen in Africa, who eat almost no salt, rarely if ever develop high blood pressure. But in northern Japan, where people eat around 50 grams of salt a day, half the population dies of strokes, a common complication of high blood pressure...
...explains. "It is salt that holds the water in humans, causes swelling and a high fluid volume. This means an increased blood pressure." It does indeed. Doctors have known since 1900 that lowering salt intake drops a patient's blood pressure, and most doctors agree that Americans eat too much salt. One of the first things a doctor tells, or should tell, a hypertensive patient is to throw away his salt shaker...
...these friendship groups, although people will be together a very great deal, there will be a kind of superficiality about the contact, a kind of tendency to achieve the lowest common denominator, a kind of talking about food, or talking about where you might go to get something to eat, or a grinding of a private joke down into nothingness, or little comments on little personality characteristics or verbal quirks or whatever of somebody in the group that can go on to the point where you feel that the whole group is working to protect anybody in the group from...
...Princess ... I will kiss you quite red and feed you until you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn 't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. In my last severe depression I took coca again and a small dose lifted me to the heights...