Word: spinach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fresh meats, vegetables, cereals, eggs, milk, fish, fresh fruit and sea-salt. Allowed to eat as much as they wanted of whatever they wanted, they proceeded to eat just as pediatricians would forbid them-quantities of meat and eggs, few vegetables and cereals. None of them ever ate spinach a second time. Some ate a wide variety of foods, some specialized But when, after five years, their individual diets were analyzed. Dr. Davis found that Nature had guided them wisely. Their diets were balanced, their teeth almost perfect...
...Memphis, Dr. Edward H. Carey, president of the American Medical Association, stated that just as much iron could be absorbed by the system from sucking a 20-penny nail as from eating a dish of spinach...
Vitamin C occurs in raw lemons, cabbages, oranges, lettuce, grapefruit, green peppers, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, turnips, spinach. It seems to be identical with hexuronic acid which Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, able Hungarian biochemist, discovered in cabbage leaves and adrenal glands. With knowledge of Vitamin C's chemical structure in hand, the Gottingen men expect speedily to synthesize that vitamin, as Hindus have synthesized Vitamin B, Americans Vitamin...
Uncle Don. An oldtime Pollyannic announcer who tells about his fans' birthdays, tells stories, sings nonsense songs, urges children to eat their spinach...
...Paul, surgeons took an 8½-in. table fork from the stomach of Margaret Santell, 19. In Los Angeles, doctors fed cotton & spinach to Raymond Wilkinson, 5, to pad a small open pocket knife working slowly down through his intestinal tract...