Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dangerous as they were, also defined existence. Wood kindled forges and kept alive the hearths of the mud-and-thatch huts of the serfs. Peasants fattened their hogs on forest acorns (pork was crucial to basic subsistence in the cold of winter), and wild berries helped supplement the meager diet. In a world without sugar, honey from forest swarms provided the only sweetness for food or drink. The pleasures of the serfs were few and simple: earthy lovemaking and occasional dances and fests...
...genetic profile, the computer will dispense some medical advice. It might say, "This individual has a tendency toward skin cancer and should avoid overexposure to the sun." Or: "He has insufficient LDL cholesterol receptors and a proclivity to obesity, so he should begin a high-fiber, low-fat diet at age 3." Explains Mark Skolnick, a geneticist at the University of Utah: "Once you can make a profile of a person's genetic predisposition to disease, medicine will finally become largely predictive and preventive." With the profusion of such profiles will come a demand for, and laws enforcing, genetic privacy...
Recent studies on college students also suggest that lack of sleep affects a person's diet...
...knows why the disease is spreading. The aging of the American population only partly explains the increase. No one knows why the cancer develops less often in Asians than in Americans or Europeans. Perhaps a low- fat diet plays a role in prevention. No one knows why black Americans suffer and die from prostate cancer more frequently than do white Americans...
Those white jurors, like everyone else, are fed a steady diet of Blacks as criminals, gang bangers, drug users or dealers and welfare queens. To them, and anyone else who bought into the stereotype, big, Black, uncooperative Rodney King just had to be guilty...