Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study found that men who had diets low in methionine and folic acid and at the same time had an average of two drinks a day or more were at a greater risk for colon cancer than those who had a diet high in nutrients and who drank alcohol at more moderate levels...
Facing an estimated shortfall of $722 million, the equivalent of 22% of the city's budget, Washington Mayor Marion Barry announced his response: a severe diet of job cutbacks and reductions in city services. Potentially most painful, however, was his request that the Federal Government take on $267 million in city Medicaid costs, and consider paying for even more services in the future. The appeal could reopen the question of how much home rule Congress should accord the District...
...known to man, according to the Guinness Book of World Records; put down after a stroke; near Inverness, Scotland. John and Nancy Fraser, who cared for Bambi at the guesthouse they own, attributed her longevity--almost twice the life span of the average deer--to tender care and a diet of sugar beets, flaked maize and chocolate biscuits...
...complaint, even in a society that shuns direct attack, is finding echoes in high places. Yokohama Mayor Hidenobu Takahide, a former construction-ministry official, says baldly, ``The problem is that the government did not exert leadership.'' In a speech to the Diet, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama pledged that his government would ``waste no time in taking every necessary fiscal and financial measure'' to help rebuild the devastated area. But when he suggested that the relief effort had faltered because of the quake's unprecedented severity, loud jeers rang out from the opposition benches. It was widely reported that Murayama...
...this case there is a lifestyle which is associated with reduced risk of breast cancer and is really linked to a type of diet which is not all that unpleasant to begin with," he said...