Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everything at once. This one can be tough, especially if you need to lose weight, because your best hope for long-term success requires permanent changes in your diet as well as a boost in your physical activity. But improvements in one area often lead to changes in others. If you're exercising regularly, for example, you're likely to find yourself eating more healthfully as well, so as not to undermine your "investment...
...instead of saying you'll eat less fat, make up your mind to bring your lunch to work. (By the way, you don't have to condemn yourself to carrots and celery sticks only. Just preparing your own food can cut hundreds of calories from the typical American diet...
...losing a promotion. Some even reported that they had been prevented from adopting children because of information found in genetic tests. Billings recalls, for example, a couple who had a child with phenylketonuria (PKU), an inherited condition that can lead to retardation but is easily--and inexpensively--treated by diet. "Insurance companies not only refused to write policies for the couple but effectively ostracized the entire family," he says...
...Alaia to Prada to Yohji Yamamoto, you'd think he had a product placement contract. It seems to be Ellis' convenient shorthand for character sketches. When Victor undergoes a transformation to a law student, we know he is different because he now wears a Brooks Brothers suit and drinks Diet Coke. London and Paris become nothing more than a different collection of recognizable proper nouns (Notting Hill and Irvine Welsh in the first case; Chez Georges and Yves Saint-Laurent in the second...
...where have these good germs been lurking all your life? In your intestines, especially the lower section called the colon, which harbors at least 400 species of bacteria. Which ones you have depends largely on your environment and diet. An abundance of good bacteria in the colon generally crowds out stray bad bacteria in your food. But if the bad outnumber the good--for example, after antibiotic treatment for a sinus or an ear infection, which kills normal intestinal germs as well--the result can be diarrhea...