Word: highprotein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high temperatures-half of them went over 100°. Nearly all had tender, enlarged lymph nodes, tenderness in the abdomen, and pharyngitis. A few were first treated as outpatients, but soon had to be admitted to the hospital. There, with no treatment but bed rest and a highprotein, high-carbohydrate diet, they unaccountably got worse. Their livers, which had been enlarged in most cases on admission, became bigger, and so tender that the airmen resisted the medics' efforts to examine them. Half of them also had enlarged and sensitive spleens...
...since 1952, reported the U.S. Public Health Service. The ailment now ranks fifth (behind measles, VD, scarlet fever and streptococcal sore throat, and TB) in prevalence among communicable diseases; last year 49,722 cases were reported (up nearly 50% from 1953). Present standard treatment: rest and a highprotein, liquor-free diet...
...curative treatment. Gamma globulin, given while the infectious form of the disease is incubating, may greatly lessen the severity of the attack or actually prevent it. But once the infection is full-blown, doctors can do nothing more than put their patients to bed, and feed them a highprotein, high-carbohydrate diet with plenty of vitamins...
...Chops. There was good news for the dieters: doctors are changing their minds about the best way to diet, and making it easier. They are still, by & large, in favor of highprotein, low-carbohydrate programs. But they are reversing themselves on the old idea that a dieter must cut all the fat off his steak or chops...