Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sugar, on par with a can of soda. Introduced this summer, Smilk is being sold by 300 Wal-Mart superstores as well as in schools in several districts in Michigan. Says Gensamer: "This could be a billion-dollar business." (No doubt naysayers scoffed at the idea of diet peach iced tea too.) Similar products, such as Moo Kooler, from a dairy cooperative, are hitting supermarket shelves...
...fine with kids, but maturity is not kind to milk. Among teenage girls, typically concerned about calories, a drop-off in consumption usually occurs between the ages of 11 and 13; boys stop around age 18. More than half of adults over 35 have also dumped milk from their diet...
...changing the way cells process nutrients is giving them less to process in the first place. Studies have shown that rats whose caloric intake is 30% lower than that of a control group tend to live 30% to 40% longer. In humans, that would translate to a spartan diet of just 1,400 calories a day in exchange for 30 extra years of life...
...Maryland, has some ideas. When animals are placed on caloric restriction, Roth explains, the first thing that happens is that their body temperature drops about 1[degree]C. Lower temperature means a less vigorous metabolism, which means less food is processed. "In order to compensate for the reduction in diet," Roth says, "the animals switch from a growth mode into what can be thought of as a survival mode. They get fewer calories, so they burn fewer...
...diet loaded with fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy foods can drive down HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE quickly and significantly. Among hypertensive patients, the regimen appears to work nearly as well as drugs do--and in just two weeks...