Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fourth, although studies of human populations to date have not provided evidence linking saccharin with bladder cancer, it must be rembered that heavy intake of this additive in diet drinks has only occurred in relatively recent years. In man, a latent period measured sometimes in years and sometimes in decades is often observed between exposure to a carcinogen and clinical evidence of cancer. In the case of cigarette smoking, its relation to lung cancer was established only after decades of exposure by human populations...
Moreover, since saccharin is contained not only in diet drinks but also in large numbers of foods and toothpastes, it is difficult for the individual to avoid ingestion of this additive without governmental intervention. The FDA's action on saccharin is therefore well advised as prudent preventive medicine. Its further decision to permit the sweetener to be sold as a nonprescription drug recognizes the fact that there may well be people for whom the benefits of taking the sweetener exceed its possible risks...
...paraphrase Justice Holmes, no one has the right to stand up in our perturbed and restless society and cry, without adequate cause, 'Cancer! Alarm! Cancer!'...So enjoy your food, and their [sic] additives, and get in the habit of eating a varied diet, and less as you grow older...
...Manhattan in 1923 of Greek parents, she studied music in Greece-she and her mother were trapped there by the outbreak of World War II. In 1949 she married Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an Italian construction tycoon twice her age. Meneghini sold his business, put Maria on her famous diet and became her manager. He showered her with clusters of jewelry for each new role she sang. But at the Metropolitan Opera, he insisted on receiving her salary in cash before each night's performance. This so enraged Met General Manager Rudolf Bing that he paid in five-dollar bills...
Japanese businessmen generally viewed the program as still too little, too late. Noting that the plan must be approved by the Japanese Diet, Hirokichi Yoshiyama, president of Hitachi Ltd., said, "Its effect will not be visible" until the end of the fiscal year next March. Washington policymakers were more generous. One Treasury official described the plan as a "kick in the back" that will propel the non-Communist world's second largest economy forward. Said he with a sigh: "Now if we could only get the Germans to reflate as well...