Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think evolution (or devolution, for that matter), may be the answer. It is better in the real world to concentrate only for a very short time on one thing. If the president starts to concentrate on the lack of broccoli in the American diet, he or she may have problems dealing with the rest of the world as well as the country, although broccoli farmers may be pleased. Even Jeopardy rewards the contestants who know one word questions about every eclectic topic...
...However, Ella always loved to eat," Morris-Rosman said. "Even toward the end, when she was severely limited in diet because of her diabetes and heart condition, she loved to talk about food...
Adding more greasy, processed food to my diet is probably not the best way to lead a healthy life, but everything in moderation is allowable. I don't think that anyone could eat McDonald's every day, but it would be a nice change from taking a late night trip to Tommy's or pacing down the aisles of Store 24. Perhaps if dinner in the dining halls went on a little later, there wouldn't be a need for such forays, but dinner ends at 7:15 p.m., and I don't go to bed until 2 a.m. Seven...
...this middle-aged vocalizing is clear, the reason for it is not. Certainly, it has nothing to do with temperament; the curmudgeonly seem to grunt no more frequently than the congenial. Nor does health or fitness play a role. I exercise four times a week and eat a diet so low in fat my doctor nearly took to prescribing me pork chops, and yet my hoo-boy arrived right on time. But if the roots of the grunt can be found in neither physiology nor psychology, where do they lie? Increasingly, I've begun to suspect that the answer...
What they can do, say the experts, is give obese patients a powerful head start on weight loss. Redux is revolutionary, explains author Levine, because "it overcomes the loss of confidence in one's own diet. The feeling that the drug gives you is the key." That's the attitude of Barbara Dorsett, the Red Lobster survivor: "I'm just so thankful they discovered this stuff," she says. "I felt so old and decrepit. It's like a new lease on life...