Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spend their waking hours in a "penguin suit," a running suit laced with elastic cords that creates resistance -- and needed exertion -- with nearly every move they make. They also go through extensive workouts that include two-mile runs on a treadmill. Throughout their missions cosmonauts stay on a diet designed to keep physical deterioration to a minimum. Romanenko's doctors say he lost at most 5% of his bone calcium, while other cosmonauts, although weightless for shorter periods, have suffered far higher losses. The cosmonaut added that he did not feel there would be "any limitations" to enduring longer missions...
...King Canute-style economic assumptions. He purports to balance the budget by 1992, but his numbers include $45 billion in savings from a drop in unemployment and $30 billion to $40 billion recovered through a decline in interest rates. "It's like telling people you can have a diet of hot-fudge sundaes and still lose weight," insists Carol Cox, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Take long-term interest rates. They are set by market forces that weigh, in part, the seriousness of the federal commitment to deficit reduction. Putting it bluntly, the surest...
...declares, "Nothing here looks like food," and orders a cheeseburger. "On occasion, I've been over 300 lbs.," he confesses, though he is happiest when he is carrying 270 lbs. on his 6-ft. 4- in. frame. Madden is more likely to wash down his cheeseburgers with Diet Coke than with Lite beer, but he is as faithful as a near teetotaler can be to the product that has forged his fame. When passersby shout out, "Tastes great!" he dutifully responds, "Less filling!" Miller Lite commercials have become a kind of folk...
...Roberts of Holladay, Utah, was having trouble opening a plastic two-liter bottle of Diet 7-Up. So she took a wrench to it, as she had many times in the past, but the results were disastrous. The top shot off like a champagne cork and struck her in the left eye, destroying most of the iris...
...corners of the land, the fat and the flabby are flocking to the Moscow Weight Loss Clinic, the first ever in the Soviet Union. Since it opened earlier this year, the center has treated some 4,800 clients ($15 for the first visit) with a regimen of strict diet and exercise, and boasts a waiting list of 35,000. Founder Dr. Vasili Vorobyev, author of the best-selling diet book Good Health, estimates that 20% to 50% of Soviets are overweight. "People exercise too little and eat too much," he says. Vorobyev has already opened two more clinics...