Word: thyroid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artist Diego Rivera, lost 125 Ib. (from 310 Ib.) in eight months by substituting thyroid extract for exercise. He also avoided fat-building foods...
...thyroid route to slimness was all right for Diego Rivera who had a doctor watching him like a mother hen. But it is a risky business, just as unsupervised dieting is risky. Obesity is not a simple condition always due to gluttony or laziness. Endocrine glands may be out of order. A poor thyroid may not keep metabolism spurred. Poor sexual apparatus causes a peculiar pudginess and a warped pituitary gland an odd flabbiness. Dieting and/or exercise unaided by doctoring cannot put those glands back in kilter...
...cause of the hyperinsulinism is an inflamed pancreas. Careful adherence to a diet low in starches and sugars and high in fats will control mild cases. In more severe cases, as in severe goitres, a surgeon must remove part of the gland. Pancreatic surgery is much more difficult than thyroid surgery...
...newly discovered function of the adrenals which Columbia University's Professor Raymund Lull Zwemer recognizes, is the regulation of salt and water in the body. This power resembles the power of insulin on sugar, the parathyroid on calcium, the thyroid on iodine. Common salt benefits cases of Addison's disease, a disease caused by defective adrenals...
...thyroid received little attention at last fortnight's meetings, apparently because its physiology is broadly understood and because the number of goitre cases in the country is shrinking (TIME. May 29). Nor did the sex glands per se come up for much discussion. The pituitary predominated over...