Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cholesterol is proved deadly, and our diet may never be the same...
This year began with the announcement by the Federal Government of the results of the broadest and most expensive research project in medical history. Its subject was cholesterol, the vital yet dangerous yellowish substance whose level in the bloodstream is directly affected by the richness of the diet. Anybody who takes the results seriously may never be able to look at an egg or a steak the same way again. For what the study found, after ten years of research costing $150 million, promises to have a profound impact on how Americans eat and watch their health. Among the conclusions...
...listeners, especially younger ones, was nearer to a revelation. Thriller brought black music back to mainstream radio, from which it had been effectively banished after restrictive "special-format programming" was introduced in the mid-'70s. Listeners could put more carbonation in their pop and cut their heavy-metal diet with a dose of the fleetest soul around. "No doubt about it," says Composer-Arranger Quincy Jones, who produced Off the Wall and Thriller with Jackson. "He's taken us right up there where we belong. Black music had to play second fiddle for a long time, but its spirit...
...parliament. Already the mullahs are so sure of their control that they have, here and there, relaxed their stranglehold over cultural life. The local radio station that plays a weekly program called The Lies of the Foreign Radio Stations now features Beethoven symphonies too, and the numbingly familiar TV diet of propaganda and prayers is relieved on occasion by plays about Iranian historical heroes. Though even foreign women must don head scarves and can expect anxious nudges from security guards if a single wisp of hair falls into view, some Iranian women have begun with impunity to try on flesh...
There were products to help people manage a herd of cattle, plan a diet, plot an airline route, schedule a tooth extraction. A California firm called Psycomp even offered packages that promise relief from stress, depression, rocky relationships and sexual inadequacy. There were naturally lots of games like Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory...