Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news for mothers of the world: If a new diet concept holds up to scrutiny, it could mean a rash of noisy and vigorous gum chewing. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic measured the energy expenditure of masticating test subjects and found that chewing sugarless gum burns about 11 calories an hour - an initially meager loss that could nevertheless manifest itself as a more significant 11 pounds a year. Of course, that's only if the chewing is constant over the course of the day, which is defined distressingly as "every waking hour," or about 12 hours per day. Study participants...
There is no grocery website that delivers to my ZIP code, so fresh vegetables are hard to come by--thank goodness. I find the very sight of raw broccoli and cauliflower on a buffet table dispiriting. I don't go to parties looking to balance my diet with the four major food groups or to consume the recommended daily allowance of fiber. For my own soiree, I hit Cajun Joey's Specialty Foods cajun-joeys.com) where sugar is the fifth major food group. Joey hasn't met a vegetable that can't be mashed, pureed, creamed or souffleed--Beechnut meets...
Instinct tells us that Harvard undergraduates have too much on their plates and that something's got to budge--such as their waistlines. After all, a diet of Tommy's and Cheese Nips, combined with hours of mime-like stasis in Lamont, doesn't exactly produce bodies to rival Chuck Norris...
This job is a bit easier in the press offices of HMS' Longwood campus neighbor, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Dealing with issues like drinking, smoking and diet, HSPH research leaps much easier into headlines...
...warily, close to a publicist, wrapped in folds of black that effectively hide a figure that once ballooned so much that paparazzi competed for photos as though they were getting paid by the pound. Yet she's looking better these days, down 40 lbs. thanks to a high-protein diet (this evening's menu: carpaccio, swordfish steak and hot milk for dessert). Her weight, of course, is hardly the only thing that has made her a star of the gossip pages. There were the slew of canceled concert appearances, the reports of erratic behavior, a faltering singing voice...