Word: cake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole segment of our population dying unnecessarily, and we're worried about whether to eat oat-bran or wheat-bran muffins," fumes Dr. David Ansell, director of ambulatory screening at Chicago's Cook County Hospital. "It's the medical equivalent of Marie Antoinette's saying 'Let them eat cake...
...this realm of superslim slivers and oversize wedges. A manufacturer wishing to boost the nutrient value of a cereal, for example, simply bases the label on an oversize portion. If low calories are the object, the portion becomes minuscule. Take, for example, Entenmann's fat-free Chocolate Loaf Cake, which boasts a scant 70 calories per 1-oz. serving. No one with a sweet tooth would ever cut the cake this small, argues Dr. Brian Levy, who treats diabetics at New York University Medical Center. "It is physically almost impossible and emotionally unsatisfying to eat just 1 oz.," he says...
Evil is easier than good. Creativity is harder than destructiveness. Dictators have leisure time for movies in their private screening rooms. When Hitler was at Berchtesgaden, he loved to see the neighborhood children and give them ice cream and cake. Saddam Hussein patted little Stuart Lockwood's head with avuncular menace and asked if he was getting enough cornflakes and milk. Stalin for years conducted the Soviet Union's business at rambling, sinister, alcoholic dinner parties that began at 10 and ended at dawn. All his ministers attended, marinating in vodka and terror. Sometimes one of them would be taken...
...cholesterol" business. While Best Foods and Great Foods stalled by saying they would work with the FDA to resolve the dispute, P&G went ahead and announced it would drop the offending words from Crisco -- and also voluntarily remove the "no cholesterol" claim from Duncan Hines cake mixes, Fisher Nuts, Puritan Oil and Pringle's potato chips...
...with babies, addicted mothers get help in kicking their habits and learn how to care for their children. The first eight babies in the program, tested at age 1, all fell within the normal range on the Bayley scale of infant development; this means they can play pat-a-cake, walk unassisted, jabber expressively and turn pages in a book...