Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...island. "It smelled so foul at times that we wanted to die," she said. "When we asked for water, they dropped lime on us. It burned our skin and eventually blinded me." Prisoners who cannot buy their food from guards subsist on the prison diet of rice, salt and occasional dried fish...
...trail, Dai was issued rice and dried salted meat daily, plus two pounds of sugar and a pint of milk every 45 days. The officers were regularly issued ginseng root, the ancient Oriental aphrodisiac and cureall. On occasion, the troops would sell their clothing to buy chickens or a suckling...
...June Dai's unit began to move cross-country toward "Front 698" in south Laos, and life became tough. "We had nothing except 250 grams of rice and some salt. If we were lucky we found bamboo shoots and cooked them. There was no milk or sugar." Illness claimed 20% of the unit. Many of the wounded died en route to a field hospital, a seven-or eight-day stretcher trip. Surrounded, out of food and low on ammunition after hard fighting near Khong Sédong, Dai and some of his comrades surrendered...
...spiritual movement," says one of Erewhon's customers. "It upsets me to see people eating junk. It's just an escape, like drugs or alcohol." Followers of the late George Ohsawa, a Japanese-born philosopher, subscribe to a macrobiotic diet that relies on tea, brown rice, beans and nuts. That program may slight fats. A New Jersey girl who followed it too strictly died of malnutrition, and parents who limit their infants to the guru's menu risk rearing mentally retarded offspring...
...increase in caloric intake that has accompanied a rising standard of living. In Japan, a steady rise in heart disease has been traced to the growth in fat consumption that has resulted from an increasingly Occidental diet. Twenty years ago, when the Japanese diet was still largely limited to rice, fish and vegetables, there were 34,298 deaths linked to atherosclerosis; two years ago the reported death toll...