Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this age of mega-mergers comes news of a consolidation of sorts among five of the nation?s top health organizations. The American Cancer, Dietetic and Heart associations, together with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Institutes of Health, have joined forces to endorse a common eating plan. The Unified Dietary Guidelines break no new ground, but they bring together under one program the various daily recommendations of each organization: For example, the guidelines propose that a person consume no more than 30 percent of calories from all types of fat (and no more than 10 percent from...
...what one serving means, says Gorman. It doesn?t mean a glop of food on a plate. "For fruit and vegetables, it usually means half a cup," she says, "for meat, it means about three ounces." The full guidelines will be published in the July 27 issue of the American Heart Association?s journal, Circulation...
...osteoporosis, but it may increase the risk of breast cancer -- researchers have been trying to come up with a better, synthetic substitute to help women in need of long-term hormone-replacement therapy after menopause. A new study published in Wednesday?s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that scientists may have made a significant discovery about the properties of the osteoporosis drug raloxifene. In a study of more than 7,000 women, researchers found that postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who were treated with raloxifene for three years reduced their risk of breast cancer...
Milk's killing probably awakened as many gay people as his election had. His death inspired many associates--most notably Cleve Jones, who later envisioned the greatest work of American folk art, the AIDS quilt. But while assassination offered Milk something then rare for openly gay men--mainstream empathy--it would have been thrilling to see how far he could have gone as a leader. He had sworn off gay bathhouses when he entered public life, and he may have eluded the virus that killed so many of his contemporaries. He could have guided gay America through the confused start...
...Prince and the twice-married American met in 1931, and within four years, the rest was rapidly becoming history. Their romance shook the British Empire, rocked the Church of England, changed the succession and foretold the dissolution of the power of royalty. He made a radio broadcast, one of the most famous public declarations of love in history: "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love...