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Word: dieting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blight which killed crops throughout Ireland was the final movement in this first symphony of sorrows, to be joined later by Civil War and the Troubles. Potatoes were all that was left for most Irish people to eat. By 1845, potatoes had become the sole staple of the Irish diet. When they were gone, there was no food available to the poor. They could not afford anything else, and it was knowingly not given to them, prompting some historians to label the Famine not as an unfortunate calamity but as a genocide...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: Remembering An Gorta Mor | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

First things first. Antonio tackles the common room of the River House where he works, clearing the Oriental carpet of last night's refuse: the usual mlange of diet cola cans, half-eaten pizza crusts and crumpled credit card solicitations...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: The Active Voice: Living with a Harvard Wage | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

...before they become malignant have contributed to a 75% drop in cervical cancer since the 1950s. Wider use of birth control pills and hormonereplacement therapy (with estrogen and progestin) have decreased the risk of ovarian and uterine cancers. Recent research also suggests that in some cases, a low-fat diet can cut the risk of cervical cancer even further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diagnosis: Female | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...least my age and hip-hop has constituted a staple in your diet as much as fast food, you'll fondly remember Show and AG's "Represent" from their 1992 Runaway Slave: the posse cut that features the recently deceased Big L (R.I.P.), among others, spewing out some of the illest battle rhymes to date. This head sets it off not giving a damn about anything: "Yo on the mic is Big L the brother who gives flames god/known for sending garbage MC's to the graveyard/I pack a gat not a slingshot/step to this you get an ass-whipping...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING: The MC's Job, Apparently | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...which makes Special K cereal, her company has changed the way food is marketed. Instead of marketing Special K as a cereal to eat in order to "look good," a new advertising campaign addresses complaints from women upset with this emphasis on the importance of a low-calorie diet...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Panelists Says Media Promotes Eating Disorders | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

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