Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grown-up food writer," insists Calvin Trillin. Though author of two books on eating--American Fried and his latest, Alice, Let's Eat--Trillin disavows any professional knowledge of food or of food-writing. Indeed, he dismisses culinary coups de plume as "boring and not my field. I can't write a straight story about food...
...left. Covered Calvin Coolidge. Still reporting. Charley Bartlett across table. Introduced Jack Kennedy to Jackie Bouvier. J.F. terHorst off to left, Once Jerry Ford's press secretary, Ike's favorite, Roscoe Drummond, on duty. Des Moines, Los Angeles, Baltimore ready to ask questions. President does not eat. Already been up several hours. He sips water. Puffy eyes. Still tired from Camp David. Delicious fatigue. New spirit in room. Respect from press. Carter easier. Abe Lincoln looking benignly down from the wall, chin in hand, elbow on knee. Carter with chin on thumbs, then arms around knees...
...saves people who cannot eat...
Brown-haired, blue-eyed Jason White looks like any sturdy, active, eight-year-old boy. But Jason is different; he cannot eat a bite of food. Ever since doctors removed his diseased stomach and part of his intestines five years ago, he has been fed almost entirely by vein, and seemed destined to spend his remaining years in hospitals. Now, outfitted with a newly designed life-giving vest, Jason is living at home and thriving...
...shortened guts, inflamed bowels, and immunological defects that prevent proper digestion of food. It is also used for burn victims and people receiving drug or radiation treatment following cancer surgery. Without intravenous feeding many of these patients would die, not of their diseases, but because they were unable to eat or absorb enough food to sustain life; they would literally starve to death. In fact, doctors estimate that at least 10% of all hospital deaths are attributable to malnutrition and another 30% are due in part to insufficient nourishment...