Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...April 1997, Lensky changed his diet from fish food to blood worms. "That was the pivotal moment in his life," said Marshall Lewy, Lensky's lifetime protector and mentor. "Most people say the key moment in his life was when he moved to New Hampshire. That was the most creative period of his life." During this summer, Dr. Bennett schooled him in several fields, such as canoe-building, silent film viewing, and how to cook salmon properly and apply a nice curry. But Lewy argues that, had it not been for the diet change, Lensky might never have lived...
...into more than $4 billion, while sales of "natural" products--a term that's slicker than soy paste--have tripled in the 1990s and now exceed $12 billion. The retail organic-and-natural-foods business is gorging itself on 20%-plus annual-sales increases, in contrast to a subsistence diet of 2%-to-3% increases at traditional grocery chains...
...March of 1997 when the chickens began to die--6,800 on three farms in Hong Kong's rural New Territories. Because poultry is a vital part of Hong Kong's diet, agricultural authorities got concerned and quickly consulted Kennedy Shortridge, a microbiologist at the University of Hong Kong. He in turn contacted his friend and fellow flu specialist Robert Webster of St. Jude. For decades both men had studied influenza viruses in chickens and other birds in the belief that these viruses were more than just an agricultural problem and might hold the key to the origins of human...
According to the study, 4,335 participants developed breast cancer. Participants were then asked to describe their diet and alcohol intake, and those who consumed a significant amount of alcohol on a regular basis showed higher instances of breast cancer...
LUNG RESCUE Finally, a way to treat a condition in which blood pressure in the lungs soars: use intravenous doses of the drug prostacyclin. The malady can show up in people who have taken the diet pills fen/phen or Redux--that's one reason they are off the market...