Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already agreed to an E.L.F. demand for $3 million in ransom, but the Ethiopian government refuses to meet another demand to release five jailed guerrillas. Meanwhile, the four captives survive mainly on a sour porridge called durra, the staple of the region. Not surprisingly, they have all lost weight. But, as Tavela told an Italian journalist who recently toured the guerrilla territory...
...President seems to be very much what he eats: unpretentious, hearty, open-minded. Indeed, reports Swiss-Born White House Chef Henry Haller, the Fords "say they like everything." Like many U.S. executives today, the President has to watch his weight, and that is a determining factor in White House menus. He is under orders from his personal physician, Rear Admiral William Lukash, to lose weight (he has already shed about twelve pounds in the last month, to 198) by following "a very simple, balanced calorie-reduction diet." Lukash explains: "His problem is that he is a meat-and-potatoes...
...small suburban house. The household is in a state of operational turmoil, with rankling dinner-table conversation and fraternal loathing between Harry's two grandsons. Harry is not a burden here; even in the middle of brawls everyone is solicitous of him. The household quickly becomes a weight...
...what the administrative-staff structure permits. My article in Nutrition Today, which you quoted, cites 14 undesirable practices, most of which reflect on the physician, the nurse and the administrative staff. Many of these practices, such as prolonged periods of feeding with intravenous glucose and failure to record body weight, are easily corrected. Others require upgrading nutrition education for physicians and others involved in healthcare. Reorganization of hospital-staff structure and attitude is also important. It isn't hospital food that's deadly-it's the lack...
...ways in which low-weight, sluggish bowel movements might contribute to so many diverse diseases are complex and indirect, the Burkitt group concedes. Diverticulosis-in which the large bowel is deeply pitted and fecal material is trapped in the crevices-appears to be directly related to a diet rich in such highly refined carbohydrates as white flour and sugar. Tumors, both benign and malignant, are related to biochemical and bacterial changes caused by long retention of feces. As for heart disease: "Evidence is accumulating that shows that the removal of fiber from the diet raises serum cholesterol levels, a process...