Word: overeat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missiles. Bouts of furious activity and 14-hour days may be followed by periods of idleness. "It's not a natural environment," complains Ray Forbes of General Electric, who visits the space center for launchings but leaves as soon as he can. "Down here you oversmoke, overeat, overdrink, overworry and undersleep...
...Cripple. Far from making a "cardiac cripple" of their patient, as so many doctors were still doing, Ike's physicians advised him to get all the exercise he could. He did not overeat, and he cut down on hard fats and sweets. This regimen kept Eisenhower's arteries working well for eight full years. Then came his second and third heart attacks, in 1965. Again, Ike recovered astonishingly well for a man then 75 years old. But more episodes were predictable...
...When you overeat, you should not open the top buttons of your trousers, and women should not unzip their dresses...
...bowel (see diagram). He took the free end of this 42-inch loop and stitched it into the side of the transverse colon, leaving the remaining 15 to 20 feet of the small bowel as a nonfunctioning blind loop. When the man recovered from the operation, he continued to overeat, but the food digested in his stomach and duodenum passed more directly into his colon. He absorbed enough protein and starch to keep him alive but not enough fat to maintain his weight...
...overeat only since I have be- come interested in dieting; I think and talk about it too much; I can't do it "naturally" the way one is supposed to. If I stopped worrying about it everything would be fine...