Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal food-stamp program, first created in 1962 as a modest $14 million experiment to help low-income families buy a "nutritionally adequate diet," has been a lifesaver for millions of destitute Americans. But it has also helped the not so destitute. In recent years the program has grown to astonishing size, in part because its slack eligibility requirements enable even moderately well-off people to qualify and make policing difficult. The system now subsidizes 19 million people, one out of every eleven Americans. Working families receiving stamps outnumber welfare households 55% to 45%. Conservatives, with Treasury Secretary William Simon...
Much as they may have been exhorted by their mothers to eat everything on their plates, many Americans find that when they dine in restaurants they just cannot do it-the portions are simply too big for the diet-conscious. Anywhere up to 65% of the food ladled onto plates in many restaurants is thrown away uneaten. Now a few restaurants are moving away from the groaning-board tradition by offering a choice of regular portions at regular prices or smaller portions at lower prices...
...portions. She argues that they will help consumers slim their waistlines and cut food bills, bolster restaurant profits by selling additional dinners, and that "the tiniest bit of wasted food cannot be justified when an estimated 1½ billion people in the developing countries do not receive a balanced diet...
...second part of a three-part series sponsored by Dudley House on personal physical fitness, Mayer suggested that athletes in endurance events may benefit from a high carbohydrate diet, but that "this is the only exception as far as general nutrition is concerned...
Addressing a crowd of about 120 on the nutrition of physical fitness, Mayer, a former nutritionist for the U.S. Olympid team, said there is no increase in protein requirement due to exercise. "A high-protein, high-cholosterol diet, such as steak and eggs," he said, "is exactly the sort of diet young men should...