Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hawke, however, barely manages to make his character likable. Troy is supposed to represent the quintessential Generation X-er--an emotionally battered, yet keenly intelligent outsider who subsists on a steady diet of trash culture...
...treatment should not affect the subject's diet, according to Robertson...
Counting on the Balanced Budget Amendment to truly reign in a Congress addicted to deficit spending is like expecting a fad diet book to control someone who eats uncontrollably. No amount of calorie-counting tips and clevergastronomic calculations will help--they ignore the cravings that underlie the problem. The budget, like a diet, is a question of will power. It will be tamed only when the American people muster the will power to deal with the sacrifices their goal demands...
...feel better if we get in shape, Cucci and the rest of society argue. But why will we feel better? Because we will look better, not because we will be in better physical condition. Many more women diet compulsively--an unhealthy means of weight-loss--than exercise; many of those who exercise do so to lose weight, not to become healthy...
Cucci offers the peculiar contention that many students want to improve their bodies but do not know how. In fact, it's no secret that if you work out and/or diet you will lose weight. But that is much easier for some than for others, both because of individual physical constitutions and because of the ways in which eating and food are overdetermined in this society...