Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found, but it was later discovered to cause cancer. The soft drink companies did not withhold this information from the public; rather, they began a search for another artificial sweetener, which led to NutraSweet. The soft drink companies needs were sympathetic to the changing needs of the American diet, and, as a result, solidified their position in the consumer industry...
...soft drinks, which unlike tea and coffee are caffeinated artificially, Mountain Dew contains the most, with 55 mg per 12-ounce can. Both Coke and Diet Coke contain approximately 46 mg of caffeine, while Pepsi has about 38 mg, Weidner said...
...serious "Oscar-bait" dramas, all presumed more commercial by an industry that generally felt melodrama had become the province of TV. "Blood Simple," "Witness," "Prizzi's Honor," and "Jagged Edge" have all contributed to a feeling in Hollywood that audiences want better and more adult stories in their theatrical diet...
Imagine a similar case in which the Diet Candy Company begins marketing a new, super-sweet, sugar-free candy bar that has only one calorie per bar. Two years later the company discovers that the candy bar causes nose cancer in Caucasian men. If Diet announces its discovery, it will lose almost half of its market; so the company conceals this information about its product. Caucasian men are freely choosing to eat Diet candy bars, but they are not freely choosing to eat a nasal carcinogen...
Medical researchers at the Med School recently found that New Coke was 42 percent effective as a spermicide, while Old Coke was 91 percent effective--and Diet Coke got them all. The results were reported in the last issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...