Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alberto Ascherio, assistant professor of nutrition and epidemiology, the primary author of the report, said this study shed new light on the importance of diet. In the past, diet was connected to heart disease, but not strokes...
...manner of speaking: some carry an X chromosome and some carry a Y. If the former fertilizes an egg, the baby will be a girl; if the latter, a boy. Over the years, fertility gurus have tried to boost production of X- or Y-bearing sperm through diet, or attempted to pick out Ys by their supposedly faster swimming speed or distinct electric charge--with dubious success...
Applauded at the march were arguments that there's no such thing as permanent weight loss, that fat people are fat because of their genes and not a weakness for Cheez Curls and Ding Dongs, and the diet industry is a $40 billion annual ripoff. Although the media are despised for cheap fat jokes and the glorification of supermodels and other stick people, "our evil enemy is the diet industry," says Smith, who laid into fad diets and the manufacturers of diet drugs with dangerous side effects...
Under the best circumstances--in which patients took Redux at the recommended dose for the shortest period of time, 11 weeks--changes in heart valves appeared to be not too serious. The longer that patients took the diet pills or the higher the dose, however, the greater the problems. (In the case of Redux, that meant taking more than 30 mg a day; for fenfluramine, more than 60 mg a day.) One study found that the risk of developing a heart-valve problem jumped 10- to 20-fold...
...good thing that has come out of all this is that doctors and patients seem more realistic about another diet pill, Meridia, which was approved after Redux was recalled. Most see it as part of a diet-and-exercise program instead of a one-pill panacea. And physicians are more likely to restrict its use to the truly obese...