Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...swear off ice cream and take up bicycling; b) eat raw spinach and tofu for breakfast, lunch and dinner, or c) avoid sugar, carrots and potatoes? If you picked C, you've probably been reading The Zone (more than 1 million copies sold!), The Five-Day Miracle Diet (lose your cravings in just five days!) or Sugar Busters!, the book about the unlikely new diet craze (started in, of all places, New Orleans) that will claim first place on the New York Times best-seller list next Sunday...
...that eating too many of the wrong kinds of carbohydrates leads to too much insulin, which in turn promotes the accumulation of fat, thereby setting up the body for continuous defeat in the battle of the bulge. Or at least that's the theory that has launched a dozen diet books...
After a generation of books and cautionary tales about self-esteem, girls still diet more than they should. A 1995 survey of 1,955 students in Grades 9 to 12 conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 60% of the girls were trying to lose weight, compared with 24% of the boys. More cases of anorexia and bulimia are reported every year, and between 5% and 10% of females 14 and older suffer from such disorders, according to the nonprofit group Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention. "I don't think in local communities and in schools...
...diet wasn't all so wholesome, though. "Also, I was smoking tons of pot just to calm my nerves...
...Martin's Griffin). Keep a list of your medications and allergies in your wallet for emergencies. Fill all your prescriptions at the same pharmacy, preferably one that has a computerized system for flagging potential problems. And make sure you take only medications that are absolutely necessary. A change in diet or exercise can, in many cases, work just as well as yet another pill...