Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many other people who feel as I do ... we are saving our tin cans, our collapsible metal tubes, our rubber, our waste paper, our scrap metal. . . . We're doing easily with less sugar than our ration card will buy. . . . We're not hoarding anything...
...risen from 27th to 10th place among causes of death, and it is now killing more older women than tuberculosis. From 2% to 3% of all living Americans will eventually die of diabetes.* What is the explanation? Why are more & more people unable to use or store the sugar in the food they eat? To a very slight degree this rise is a statistical illusion. In the last 40 years more people have been going to doctors, and more doctors have begun looking for diabetes. In the past diabetes was sometimes overlooked as a cause of death, but statistics have...
Diabetes also increases as the standard of living rises. Labor-saving machinery relieves more & more people of heavy food-burning physical work, and food itself becomes more abundant. Large amounts of food (especially sugar) burden the pancreas. This organ secretes insulin to burn up and store carbohydrates, which have been digested to sugars. If an individual inherits a tendency toward diabetes, his hard-pressed pancreas may slow down or stop producing insulin. Out of every 20 diabetics more than 40 years old, 17 were overweight before the disease appeared...
Others are taking an involuntary cure. Reason: Due to the dope shortage, dope adulteration in the last few years has reached a point where most of the heroin peddled in the U.S. is 98% milk sugar. This ersatz heroin is slowly working a cure on many drug addicts without their knowing...
...Virginia's apple-cheeked applegrower Senator Harry Byrd announced that Agriculture Department chemists had concocted a sweet apple syrup to double for hard-to-get sugar and glycerine...