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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important than how and where one eats. Outpatients at the Jordan-Levitz diet clinic can have peanut butter sandwiches or lemon meringue pie if they like, but for 20 weeks they must keep a food-intake chart, a sort of eater's digest of the circumstances of each meal or snack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Eater's Digest | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...almost hysterical," Rich confesses. "I was only able to wait 20 minutes. The second time I distracted myself by calling someone on the telephone." After-dinner snacking in the kitchen was a particular problem. Now Rich washes her dinner dishes in the morning. To make each meal last longer, she sets her fork down between bites, and sometimes even interrupts her meal to do the laundry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Eater's Digest | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...Pygmy. The first stop at Dick Farr's 35,000-animal feed lot is a receiving area where, says Farr, "we can dip, brand, castrate and vaccinate them in 30 seconds." Then the animals get their first taste of eating feed-lot-style. The first meal is alfalfa hay, which smells something like familiar range grass, mixed with a little bit of high-protein feed. Their diet is made "hotter" by adding larger proportions of corn, malt, sour-smelling silage, beet pulp, minerals and antibiotics. The animal's metabolism is soon racing so hard to digest the rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Raising Cattle by Computer | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

Harvard's other departing senior, guard Ken Wolfe, terminated his tenure in Crimson hoop on a less triumphant note. In a pre-game meal, Sanders's only Mr. Consistent dropped a filling in his soup. A quick trip to a Providence dentist sealed the gap, but the cavity in his play remained, as Wolfe could muster only six points...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Bruins Squeak by Cagers On Shot at Buzzer, 56-54 | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...immediately felt my wallet burning in my pants pocket. An assortment of hamburgers and grilled meats stared back at me with their 20- and 25-peso prices. That's only about a dollar, but in Bolivia one needn't ever pay over 15 pesos for a full-course meal. I chose the cheapest item on the list, a perro caliente (Spanish for "hot dog"), which went for seven pesos. Up in the Indian Quarter seven pesos would have bought me soup, a piece of chicken, rice, and chuna, a type of dried potato. In a few minutes the waitress, dressed...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 2/22/1974 | See Source »

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