Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steady Diet of Nothing by Fugazi...
...latest nutritional correctness: bread and pasta are great for you, so eat lots; fruits and vegetables are good; meats, dairy products, beans and nuts are O.K.; and fats and sweets are trouble, not even a full-fledged group, and should be squeezed into the smallest possible corner of the diet...
...afford. Indirectly, then, a growing cattle population threatens humans on the low end of the economic scale with hunger. D. Gale Johnson, an agricultural economist at the University of Chicago, questions this assumption. He notes that in China, beef consumption has risen in tandem with overall improvements in diet...
Cutting down on beef consumption in protein-sated countries like the U.S. is a prudent prescription that would go a long way toward enhancing general health. Red meat is the primary source of saturated fat in the American diet, and too much dietary fat has been linked to the development of both heart disease and certain types of cancer. But trimming beef in the American diet, emphasizes Felicia Busch of the American Dietetic Association, "will not solve world hunger, and it isn't going to save our planet." The environmental cost of beef is just one aspect of the multiplying...
...BEER DRINKERS GET BEER BELLIES? IT'S OBvious: beer, like alcohol in general, is full of calories. Except that the obvious is only part of the story. The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that Swiss physiologists have found that alcohol not only adds calories to the diet but also keeps the body from burning dietary fat properly. Booze in the bloodstream can slow down fat metabolism more than 30% -- though it speeds up the burning of carbohydrates. When fat isn't metabolized, it gets deposited on thighs, hips, stomach and other embarrassing parts of the body. So while...