Word: foods
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...trucker is away from home sometimes for weeks, often driving trucks that are furnaces in summer and freezing in winter. A good percentage of truck drivers have chronic stomach trouble and other health problems due to the existence they have to lead. Contrary to popular opinion, most truck-stop food is not very good. Truck driving is a physical hazard. Many men die on the highways every year...
...Finance Committee's ranking Republican, John Williams of Delaware, expertly probed for and found grave weaknesses. Williams shocked his colleagues by producing figures assembled by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare at his request. They showed that total state-federal assistance to an FAP-eligible family (food stamps, Medicaid, public housing) could in several states add up to more than $6,000 yearly, none of it subject to income or Social Security taxes. That is more than many self-supporting families earn...
...where 70% of the nation's people now dwell, has disconnected most Americans from such rural satisfactions. But for all the eutrophication of lakes, the alarms about mercury in livestock and DDT on the vine, the land is still capable of yielding an astonishing bounty. For those whose food does not come entirely from cans and packages, it also provides a deep seasonal delight of harvest...
...Style. Other diseases have failed to survive medical scrutiny. "Athlete's heart" was practically pronounced dead in 1927, to the relief of the anxieties of many a long-distance runner. Ptomaine, long blamed for food poisoning, has been exposed as a fraud; most of its symptoms are now attributed to bacterial or viral infections, while the rest are the result of chemical contamination...
...years, tainting untold numbers of fish, officials in ten states have closed down some commercial fisheries. Public Health workers in 16 states have warned residents against eating fish or fowl from suspect waterways. At least one family, the Hucklebys of Alamogordo, N. Mex., has been seriously poisoned after eating food contaminated with mercury...