Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coaches differ on the prevalence of eating disorders in Crimson athletics and on the method of educating their teams on diet and nutrition...
Costin says she goes over diet at the beginning of the season, treating each athlete individually. According to Costin, the nature of swimming does not emphasize thinness; the percentage of a woman's body fat is more important than her weight...
...been the twilight year for telephone giants. First, on New Year's Day the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph became effective. Then, in early December, Britain sold majority control of the government-owned British Telecom to private investors in the largest stock sale ever. Last week the Japanese Diet joined the trend. It voted to end the state monopoly of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (fiscal 1983 sales: $18.4 billion), the country's phone company. Beginning in April the government will offer half of NTT's shares for sale over a five-year period, and could eventually sell...
...more sweeping recommendation, the experts urged that all Americans over age two adopt a diet that would reduce total fat intake from its current national level of about 40% of total calories to just 30%. Saturated fat-the type found mainly in meat and dairy products-should constitute no more than 10% of a person's daily diet, the panel said. The suggested regimen would limit cholesterol consumption to 250 to 300 mg a day (one large egg yolk contains...
While such a diet has been advocated by the American Heart Association for years, some scientists believe it is wrong to try to impose it on the entire U.S. public. "We are holding out the promise that the whole population will benefit from this, and that is unrealistic," says Dr. Edward Ahrens, a leading cholesterol researcher at Rockefeller University. But Steinberg argues that the diet can do no harm and hardly poses a hardship: "There is no reason a person can't follow it and still have a sundae at Haagen-Dazs every Saturday...