Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body builder myself, I don't mean to disparage the muscle beach culture. Except when it begins to obscure the reality of true fitness. Any body builder will point out that diet is about 70 percent of intensive training...
Testament to this evasive style in both diet as well as exercise is the newly developed and increasingly popular Electrical Muscular Stimulation devices. You go into some high tech chamber of fitness, lie down on a table and let some person in a white oufit slap rubber pads on vital muscular areas. Your muscles are then contracted by force of electrical impulses--no work, no sweat, only modern technology...
Even if genetic information is kept private, the knowledge gained can be profoundly troubling to the individuals involved. It is one thing to uncover a genetic enzyme deficiency that can be effectively treated through diet. But what about people who fear they have inherited a debilitating disease for which there is yet no treatment or cure? Some might want advance knowledge so they can prepare their families and put what is left of their lives in order. Others might prefer not knowing anything at all. "We may be able to see into the future," says Doreen Markel, a genetic counselor...
MORE important than watching your waist or looking ahead to spring break, there is a growing body of research that says a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet combined with daily exercise can help prevent heart disease. HUDS recognizes the importance of nutrition in its message, but many times its products fall far too short of its rhetoric...
...panel vehemently condemned the use of dietary supplements. Some 40% to 60% of Americans routinely swallow vitamins, mineral tablets, protein powders and the like. Yet most people do not need more than the RDAs for vitamins and minerals, and they get that easily through a varied diet. Megadoses have no benefits and can be toxic...