Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 of the importance of a low-calorie diet...
...DIET DOES IT Doctors have known that eating lots of fruits and vegetables, low-fat dairy foods and slightly higher-than-average amounts of protein can lower blood pressure. Last week they reported that the regimen works especially well for blacks. It lowers their blood pressure an average of 13 points--about as much as medication does. Among whites, readings drop 6 points. The diet works even for patients who do not cut back on salt...
...opera," says neoconservative pundit Laura Ingraham. "It was our Days of Our Lives." So expect to hear more from people like Geraldo Rivera, host of a nightly CNBC talk show, who bashes Ken Starr the way he used to bash O.J. Simpson. Rivera has fed viewers an all-impeachment diet for months. Asked whether he will ever move on, he responds, "I have just begun the fight. I'm going to be talking about this next week. You have the Linda Tripp grand jury in Maryland. You have Julie Hiatt Steele. You have the whole Kathleen Willey situation. You have...
Consider the latest electronic health scare: about the artificial sweetener aspartame, which is found in everything from Equal to Diet Coke. A widely disseminated e-mail by a "Nancy Markle" links aspartame to Alzheimer's, birth defects, brain cancer, diabetes, Gulf War syndrome, lupus, multiple sclerosis and seizures. Right away, the long list warrants skepticism. Just as no single chemical cures everything, none causes everything...
...Aspartame triggers headaches. Wrong again, says Susan Shiffman, a medical psychologist at Duke University who conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled trial of 40 "aspartame sensitive" people. A little probing often revealed the real trouble. One woman, who often ate peanuts with her diet soda, was allergic to peanuts. Another drank too much caffeine...