Word: dieting
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...following year Luther was summoned to recant his writings before the Diet of Worms, a council of princes convened by the young Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In his closing defense, Luther proclaimed defiantly: "Unless I am convinced by testimony from Holy Scriptures and clear proofs based on reason - because, since it is notorious that they have erred and contradicted themselves, I cannot believe either the Pope or the council alone - I am bound by conscience and the Word of God. Therefore I can and will recant nothing, because to act against one's conscience is neither safe...
During the futile Protestant-Catholic reunion negotiations in 1530 at the Diet of Augsburg, the issue of priestly celibacy was as big an obstacle as the faith vs. good works controversy. Luther had married a nun, to the disgust of his Catholic contemporaries. From the start, the marriage of clergy was a sharply defined difference between Protestantism and Catholicism, and it remains a key barrier today. By discarding the concept of the moral superiority of celibacy, Luther established sexuality as a gift from...
...when a Japanese magazine reported that he had set up a web of fake firms to hide shady financial dealings. Two years later, an official probe led to the Lockheed bribery charges and Tanaka's subsequent arrest. Throughout his travails, however, Tanaka always retained his seat in the Diet, which he first won in 1947. More important, he still controls the largest faction within Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party; of the 422 L.D.P. members in the 763-seat Diet, 119 consider Tanaka their leader. He has played a pivotal role in choosing his three successors, including...
Every day some 40 million Americans, stricken by such cravings as the Big Mac attack and the Whopper whim, happily surrender to the artery-clogging, waist-expanding pleasures of fast food. But for diet-conscious consumers in particular, a megaburger binge provokes guilt feelings. Reason: the grab-a-bite meal of a quarter-pound cheeseburger, French fries and 16-oz. cola typically contains 1,070 calories. Since an average 170-lb. officeworker must consume fewer than 2,900 calories a day in order to lose weight, a trip to the burger stand does not leave much room for breakfast...
Sheley's menu displays some ingenious slimming down. A typical meal of a vegetarian pita-bread sandwich ($1.49), baked potato (990) and sugar-free soft drink (550) contains 431 calories. Even the cheeseburgers are lightweights, comprising a bun with 25% fewer calories, low-fat hamburger patties and diet cheese. Other offerings include salads (with low-cal dressing), soup, frozen yogurt, cheese-covered potato skins, and light beer. The company's slogan consciously echoes the advertising for Miller Lite: "More of a good thing. And less...