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Word: dieting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Launched in 1979, the cable channel for children is now seen in 41 million homes, double the number of five years ago. Ratings, among the highest of all basic-cable services, are up 12% from last year. Along with its long-running show for preschoolers, Pinwheel, and a diet of cartoons and vintage reruns (Lassie, Dennis the Menace), the channel is steadily boosting its slate of original programming aimed at older youngsters. The most successful, Double Dare, has become a hit in syndication and has spawned several imitators. Nickelodeon's success with live-action children's fare has even encouraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Letting Kids Just Be Kids Nickelodeon | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...lose an average of 60 lbs. to 70 lbs., but some regain their weight rapidly. Michael Workstel, a printer from Milford, Pa., lost 120 lbs. twice, only to put it back on. Why? "Because you don't change your eating habits," says Workstel. "When you're doing a liquid diet, there are no choices. You're in a bubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Drinking Yourself Skinny | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...liquid diet, patients have to return to the all too tempting world of food and the all too easily avoided reality of exercise. That is when the real test comes, says Ted Schilling, 42, an attorney in Osterville, Mass. A veteran of "every diet you could be on," Schilling took to heart the behavioral-modification classes he attended while losing 100 lbs. A year and a half later, his weight is still off. Says Schilling proudly: "I'm living a normal life with food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Drinking Yourself Skinny | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...bypass in 1983. Manners and habits changed overnight. Although he had a great appetite for high-cholesterol foods and no taste for exercise, he bought a machine that demands the efforts of cross-country skiing. Week by week, he worked himself into shape. En route he totally altered his diet and dropped 50 lbs. If he could overcome his nearly fatal difficulties, Asimov reasons, why can't the world do the same? Solipsistic, perhaps, but plausible. "A hundred years ago," he reminds skeptics, "95% of the labor force was involved in food production or distribution. Experts predicted that once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Protean Penman | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...sweet-tempered little brown guy. Suppose, instead, he had been a sweet-tempered woman built like a movie star -- Kim Basinger, say. On the face and figure of it, there is something to be said for this switcheroo. All right, she seems to be on a battery-acid diet and needs instructions on matters as diverse as earthling sexual practices and the historical significance of Jimmy Durante. Nobody's perfect. But Celeste is a willing learner, and Dr. Steve Mills (Dan Aykroyd), the widower, father and scientist on whose signal into outer space she beamed down, is an eager, bedazzled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Out of Five Ain't Bad | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

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