Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impossible to split a whole person in two, it was a painful admission. A few days before Nunn would lead the charge against John Tower on the Senate floor, the 50-year-old chairman of the Armed Services Committee sat in his office under the influence of two diet Cokes and finally confessed that he once stole some eggs from a neighbor who kept chickens...
...health through better eating. What bothers them is the specifics: Just how much of what foods, for example, are they supposed to be consuming? Last week, in a massive new report by the National Research Council, the public received the best answer yet. The 1,300-page document, titled Diet and Health: Implications for Reducing Chronic Disease Risk, sets forth the most comprehensive and detailed set of dietary guidelines ever...
...meantime, what is a worried parent to do? Jackson counsels caution but still recommends that children get a steady diet of fresh fruits and vegetables, organically grown if possible. And he warns people not to let their fears push them into food foolishness. "I wouldn't want parents to go back to Big Macs," he says, "because they're concerned about the broccoli...
...sort of revolutionary in the resort business. His tastes run toward the liquid: private lagoons full of sociable fish, waterfalls, whirlpools, water slides and vast, curvaceous pools. Distinction lies in myriad details, like the seven bird keepers who ensure that the 27 pink flamingos get enough carotene in their diet so that they don't fade to beige...
...announcement shocked friends and reporters, who describe Kitty as a social drinker who enjoyed a glass of wine with dinner. But the news came as no surprise to drug-abuse experts. Kitty, 52, had confessed early in the campaign to a 26-year addiction to amphetamine diet pills, a reliance she had overcome in 1982. Increasingly, counselors recognize that dependence on one substance increases the risk of abusing others...