Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continue to smoke, drink and eat their way to an early grave. According to a 1993 study, half of the 2 million deaths that occur each year in the U.S. can be linked to unhealthy life-styles. The three biggest culprits--tobacco, lack of exercise and a high-fat diet--together account for at least $200 billion of the nation's $1 trillion in health-care costs...
Talk of a bailout has enraged Japanese voters. For three weeks opposition legislators blocked entrances to the budget-committee room of the Diet, Japan's legislature. They picked up their cushions and departed last week only after Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto agreed to extend debate on what had been a no-questions-asked $6.85 billion bailout of the housing-loan companies...
Those facts seem to point to an environmental factor, probably the change to a Western diet. In a test of that conjecture, researchers at Sloan-Kettering, led by Dr. William Fair and pharmacologist Warren Heston, discovered that tumors grew more rapidly in mice fed a high-fat diet than in those on a low-fat diet. And when the animals on high-fat diets were switched to low-fat ones, the growth of their tumors slowed...
...never been a pristine art form, its practitioners not generally averse to bending over backward to please sponsors. But lately, advertising's osmotic bleed into entertainment has turned into an arterial gush. Murphy Brown wrote John F. Kennedy Jr. into a script so he could promote his magazine, George; Diet Coke hired the writers and producers of Friends to create a mini episode-cum-ad starring the entire cast; and, most famously, Elizabeth Taylor spritzed her way through four CBS sitcoms in a single night last month--including Murphy Brown, again--to push her new fragrance, Black Pearls...
...people over a decade found that daily supplements do nothing to lower the chances of dying from cancer or cardiovascular disease. Still, eating fruits and vegetables rich in the nutrient appears to reduce the risk of disease; researchers now suspect that this is owing to an overall healthy diet and not to beta carotene...