Word: proteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Riggs went into full training in San Diego, swearing off liquor and girls for the duration. He is in a regimen of roadwork and practice sets with his Boy Friday, Tennis Pro Lornie Kuhle. He is also on a vitamin-based, high-protein diet planned for him by a Los Angeles nutritionist before the Court match. The program calls for Riggs to take approximately 450 pills a day: 100 black pellets of soybean-wheat germ concentrate, 75 liver-extract pills, 75 plastic phials of pure powdered protein, smaller quantities of vitamins E, C, Bl, B2, B complex...
...diversification, Black -an Orthodox Jew who follows strict dietary rules-is still high on bananas. He considers this relative of the lily family a cheap source of both protein and calories. United Brands earlier this year opened a 9,000-acre banana plantation in the Philippines with an eye to the Asian market. Company executives are also negotiating with a number of Eastern European governments in the hope of getting them to consider Chiquita bananas not a symbol of Yanqui imperialism but a part of Communist diets...
Freezer Run. The bargain hunters seem to fall into two camps: those determined to eat as much meat as ever and others willing to use high-protein alternatives to some extent. Mrs. Hackett, the lamb-and-goat lady from La Grange, speaks for the carnivores: "I know there are a lot of women who are going to ride it out with eggs and cheese, but I want meat...
...Club. "Nor should we expect it to do so. These challenges can be met only through global cooperation, and especially through the close collaboration of Japan, the U.S. and Europe." Washington's decision to cut back on exports of soybeans, one of Japan's principal sources of protein, coupled with various other "Nixon shocks" since 1971 and Watergate, has caused Japan to question even more seriously its generation-old reliance on the American word...
...hybrid meat will not soon replace filet mignon at finer restaurants, but compared with regular beef, it is more tender, contains significantly more protein and less fat. It tastes much like conventional beef but is slightly richer. Best of all, Basolo figures that it will eventually be priced 25% to 40% cheaper than the real thing...