Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to a new study by researchers at Iowa State University at Ames, when parents smoke, drink too much alcohol, eat too much junk food and otherwise neglect their health, their kids often do the same. By the same token, kids whose moms and dads exercise and watch their diet tend to follow that example. In two-parent households, children seem to follow parents closely along gender lines, with boys mimicking Dad's lifestyle and girls copying...
...renders this movie awfully comforting; everything always come out okay in the end: candied apples and lollipops for the good, dungeons and dragon-tails for the wicked. We don't really pay upwards of eight dollars to be squeezed into itchy seats or suck up five dollar watered-down Diet Cokes for the clever lines or the skimpy fashions. Instead, we want the oddly satisfying feeling that wondrous, elusive, ephemeral joy--okay, okay, at least a prom date--does come...
...test your body fat with calipers, which physically pinches your fat for a more accurate reading. The Wellness Center is at University Health Services (UHS) (75 Mt. Auburn St.; 495-9629; 2nd floor). UHS has two nutritionists on staff who are ready to speak with students about their diet and lifestyle by appointment. The meetings and fat analysis are covered by student insurance...
Chin pops into his office long enough to check his e-mail before he meets with the founders of TimeDance, a schedule-planning website that is looking for a second round of venture funding. While he listens to the company's pitch, Chin sips a diet Coke and leans back in his chair, hands clasped behind his head. He interjects constantly with enthusiasms. "This is just dynamite," he says at one point. "I could use this website 50 times a day. This could be ubiquitous." He arranges a second meeting...
...Things that taste healthy usually don't taste good, but this is great," said Anne Sclater, a student at the Harvard Divinity School. "I like this product because I don't get enough protein in my diet since I don't eat meat...