Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bulgarians take pride in their 210,000 passenger cars-twenty times as many as in 1960-even though most of them are owned by bureaucrats. Lukanov told Talbott that "we are already producing enough food for two Bulgarias"; yet vegetables and meat are often scarce and expensive because of the enforced exports to the Soviet bloc. The regime apparently plans to reduce some of these inequities. It was announced that 412 million leva ($382,500,000) of this year's 7.11 billion leva ($6.6 billion) national budget would be used to increase wages and workers' benefits...
...current activity on the Chicago Board of Trade, the world's largest commodity exchange, is a reliable indicator of future food prices, housewives might have to spend more at the grocery store next year for such basic items as bread, flour and meat. Grain dealers and agribusiness giants such as Ralston Purina and Quaker Oats sell and buy future contracts on the exchange-and each transaction really amounts to a bet on what commodities will actually sell for in one to nine months. Since November, the 124-year-old exchange's volume record and many of its price...
...addicts, should operate with almost religious conviction. Believing that good health, not to mention beauty, longevity and even sexual potency, depend on the proper foods, they spurn most pre-packaged products. Instead they insist upon vegetables grown in soil that has been enriched with manure rather than chemical fertilizers, meat from animals raised without growth-stimulating hormones, bread from which no grain particles have been removed...
Magic Bullet. Vitamins are unquestionably important to health. A lack of vitamin A, contained in green, leafy vegetables and whole milk, can cause night blindness. Shortages of the various B vitamins, contained in milk, meat and some grains, produce such deficiency diseases as pellagra and beriberi. A deficiency of vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, a substance found in citrus fruits and some fresh vegetables, can result in scurvy. Rickets, a disease caused by calcium deficiency that produces bone deformities, can result from a lack of vitamin...
...DOCTOR'S QUICK WEIGHT LOSS DIET, developed by Dr. Irwin Stillman, allows only protein-rich foods like lean meat, eggs and cottage cheese. Everything else, including most fruits and vegetables, is banned; and at least eight glasses of water a day must be drunk to keep the system flushed. Stillman insists that dieters can lose from five to ten pounds a week. But weight may not be all they lose. The shortage of carbohydrates can cause excessive fat metabolism, which may be harmful...