Word: proteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along his path Dr. Jarvis has developed a scunner against high-protein diets, cane sugar and wheat bread (he prefers rye or corn). He has also picked up some vague racial ideas-that Americans should eat the same types of diet as their European ancestors, whether Nordic, Alpine or Mediterranean. Thus Nordics are urged to "live out of the ocean," eschewing good red meat and chewing fish instead...
...live? Brown University researchers fed the problem to an IBM 650 electronic computer, last week reported the answer: 21? a day. Caring nothing for variety or any other of life's spices, the computer solemnly accepted the facts that a man must have certain minimum quantities of protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus and five vitamins. Then its nerve cells went to work, concluded that only four foods are needed to sustain life: lard, beef liver, orange juice and soybean meal...
...winter, tropic and arctic climates to test how long products will stand up in each. They have a texturometer that can gauge the chewiness of everything from beefsteak to whipped cream, automatic analyzers that can tell how much gelatin is in a batch of JellO, or what kind of protein is in a piece of meat. The laboratories produced all of the seven new products produced in 1959: butterscotch chips, caramel chips, Buffay (a fortified rice), Instant Yuban (a high-grade coffee), Horizon's Italian Casserole, frozen potato puffs, and Prime, a new dog food, which was carefully tested...
When the medical world was agog over the discovery that blood circulates through the body, imaginative surgeons tried to transfuse sheep's blood into human patients weakened by too generous bloodletting. Since they had never heard of such things as protein compatibility, it is small wonder that most patients died. In 1678 the French Parliament banned transfusions. Nowadays, no doctor would dream of transfusing animal blood to man. But last week, the medical world was again agog over a report that Italian physicians had used a sheep's blood to help clear the system of a woman dying...
...Sicilian doctors' reasoning: a chemical cleansing bath is better than none, but it lacks so many of the factors usually found in blood that the patient loses some substances that are essential to life. Cellophane tubes of the type used in the artificial kidney will stop big protein molecules, so there should be no danger of a fatal antibody reaction. But they allow the blood's complex chemicals to pass freely if they are fully dissolved. So the protein-free part of the woman's poisoned plasma passed through both tube walls and into the sheep...