Word: heiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in Milwaukee last week, Dr. Victor George Heiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) made a powerful plea for proper stoking of the human machine. Science has proved, said he, that the greatest factor in longevity is correct eating...
...years nutritionists have tried to teach the U. S. public common sense about eating. But most people who can afford to eat well eat unwisely, pour enormous quantities of oils, sugars and refined starches into their overworked digestive engines. "If a diet is correctly balanced," said Dr. Heiser, "a smaller quantity of food will suffice." Certain it is that middle-aged persons who keep slightly underweight have a good chance of outliving their self-indulgent friends. Facts on food...
...Yellow Jack was being released last week, the Satevepost published a searching review of the yellow-fever problem entitled Yellow Jack Breaks Jail, by Physician Victor G. Heiser. Its discouraging findings were that the enigma of yellow fever has not yet, after all, been completely solved. Theory has been that the Aedes mosquito was the only carrier, and that the virus required a human host. But exhaustive research has since proved that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is not the only carrier, and that men are not the only hosts to the yellow fever virus; that it can be harbored...
What gave Dr. Heiser's article a further ominous ring was the expressed theory that the wide extension of airplane travel could bring about a renewed spread of yellow fever. His suggestions for prevention of a new epidemic: 1) consultation with health authorities in the construction of transport airplanes, to eliminate possible hiding places for the carrier or its larvae, and 2) utilization by airplane passengers of inoculation facilities...