Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...famine here is more subtle than the sub-Saharan ones, where people starved to death because there was no food. There is still food here. Just not enough in the daily diet to avoid widespread malnutrition and an increasing number of fatal illnesses. People are surviving on just one-fifth of the calories required to maintain health. All food is rationed...
...then, live anthologies were giving way to filmed westerns. Coe worked on Playhouse 90 (his big hit: Days of Wine and Roses), but what Vidal called "a golden age for the dramatist" was over. So was Coe's influence on the televiewer's weekly diet. On Broadway he produced The Miracle Worker and All the Way Home; in the movies he directed A Thousand Clowns. But by his 50th birthday Coe had become a cultural afterthought. He died...
What makes this research so compelling is that unlike cholesterol, which everyone knows is associated with coronary problems but can often be treated only by medication and a rigid diet, homocysteine appears to respond to nothing more demanding than eating more vegetables and taking a few more vitamins. Homocysteine is certainly not the lone gunman of heart disease, but the studies strongly suggest that it's at least a co-conspirator--and one that patients can do something about. "This is very convincing," says Dr. Jacob Selhub of Tufts University in Boston. "Homocysteine appears to be a risk factor...
...behind some cases of heart disease, it's unlikely to be behind them all, and there's no guarantee that managing the amino acid will decrease the risk of cardiac trouble. Regardless of circulating homocysteine levels, smoking and obesity will still ravage the cardiovascular system, and a poor diet will still choke the blood with fats. Cardiologist Roger Blumenthal of Johns Hopkins University estimates the share of all cardiac cases attributable to homocysteine at fewer than...
What's more, even for patients whose illnesses are caused by elevated amino acids, diet may not be much of a cure. Scientists know cholesterol levels in the blood fluctuate within a limited range; when people eat less fat, the liver simply manufactures more. It's not yet known whether there is a similar set point for homocysteine. "People are jumping the gun if they think they can just take vitamins and skip the traditional health measures like exercising and eating a low-fat diet," says Blumenthal. "All the evidence has yet to come in." Nonetheless, in a field...