Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three years after Jean Harris fired four bullets into Herman Tarnower, the case of the headmistress and the diet doctor still has the power to engage our imagination. The public's appetite for details of the murder trial had been whetted by the social standing of the protagonists, as Diana Trilling pointed out in her brilliant 1981 study, Mrs. Harris. But the abiding fascination of the case resides in the story of the high-minded, stylish lady who descended to the depths of self-abasement and violence...
Toward this end, Clark is eating a varied diet and gradually increasing his activity. His meals include bacon and eggs, potatoes and gravy, vegetables and lemon pie, quite a change since January, when he was forbidden to taste the heart-shaped chocolate cake that was baked for his 62nd birthday. Clark, who had been a 6-handicap golfer, avidly follows sports on TV and enjoys reading the letters that have arrived by the thousands. He was particularly pleased when a Seattle hospital named a coronary wing after him. "Just think," he said dryly, "I didn't have...
...Sioux City, Iowa: "If you had asked a lady a few years ago whether she ate popcorn, she'd have told you, 'No, it's too fattening.' Ask the same lady today and she'll tell you it's part of her diet...
...original aim of the study begun in 1974 was to analyze the long-term health effects of oral contraceptives, smoking, and hair dyes on women. In 1979 the scientists expanded research to include studies of how day-to-day diet affects the likelihood of chronic disease, particularly cancer...
Studios have shown that animals are more likely to get cancer if they easels than the normal selenium--which originates in the soil and enters the diet through food chain...