Word: diet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until recently, Ellis fought back against the press the old-fashioned way--issuing forceful denials and filing the occasional libel lawsuit. Last week, though, he launched an unprecedented pre-emptive strike. With ABC's 20/20 preparing a segment about his San Diego-based diet empire, Ellis took out a full-page ad in the New York Times and other newspapers, directing readers to a website newsinterview.com where they can see the newsmagazine's full, unedited interview with him, before ABC airs its own snippets...
...Sean: A friend of ours sells Diet Coke, and he does really well...
Jesse Gelsinger, 18, had good reasons not to sign up for experimental gene therapy. Though the Tucson, Ariz., teen was born with a rare genetic disorder that partly disabled his liver, his course of drugs and diet was working. The Phase I trial at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors would pump a modified cold virus into his system to correct genetic flaws, promised nothing in the way of a cure...
According to the article, tobacco use leads to 19 percent of all deaths; unhealthy diet and inactivity leads to 14 percent, alcohol leads to 5 percent, infectious disease leads to 5 percent, firearms lead to about 2 percent and accidents lead to 1 percent...
...remark regarding those on a vegetarian diet elicited nervous chuckles...