Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart patients-higher-than-normal levels of blood cholesterol, fat, sugar and insulin. That finding, he said, appears to be "the elusive link between the mild form of diabetes and heart disease." If the hormonal imbalance is proved to be the root cause of heart disease, Phillips concluded, diet, drugs or other means might be used to change the blood hormone levels in order to prevent a heart attack...
...well-established publishing world--wanted to know about Patricia Hearst's closet sex life and continual menstrual cycle. (The California papers followed this latter issue quite closely and the ever-staid New York Times devoted several columns in its Sunday magazine to the constant period, nail polish and diet of this heiress-turned-urban-guerilla-turned-heiress-again...
...training regimens. (This sure is getting complicated.) Rachel Newton '79 attributed her success to "a little banging of the head against the wall." Ecker felt that his cradling of a stick in lacrosse practice helped, and Orb Sherman said he was on a "high protein, low carbohydrate diet." He explained in between chugs of beer that he had forgotten his "pills" before the match, pulling a bottle of the neglected "One-A-Days" from his pocket...
...Cosmetic Act, which dictates the banning of any food additives that cause cancer in humans or laboratory animals. In the case of saccharin, some Canadian rats developed bladder cancer when they were fed the sweetener in amounts that would be equivalent, in a human, to 800 cans of diet soda a day throughout his life. The Delaney clause, however, makes no mention of dosage levels. By considering saccharin a drug, the FDA allowed itself to apply less rigid standards: the agency may weigh hazard against benefit in deciding which drugs can be sold. Yet, drugs must be proved "effective...
...protray themselves as gadflies in a gadflydeficient society. To be sure, we are cynical and lax and brimstone fuel-to-be. But I doubt that Journal is going to sting us out of apathy. It's a gadfly, sure, but one that has tried to digest too rich a diet and wound up too heavy to fly very high...