Word: dieting
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...began when Earl and Mary Triplett returned from a 61st wedding anniversary vacation in Alaska to their home near Tacoma, Washington, popped open a Diet Pepsi, and then trundled off to bed. The next morning Earl picked up the container, which had been left overnight on a table, heard a rattle and was surprised to find a syringe inside. The couple called their lawyer, who called the press and local health officials, who alerted the police. And thus a frenzy was born...
...will aid credulous consumers by requiring companies that market vitamins and diet supplements to back up their therapeutic claims with hard evidence. Only calcium supplements taken to prevent osteoporosis now meet the proposed standards...
After a man in Tacoma, Washington, said he found a syringe in a can of Diet Pepsi, more than 50 similar tampering incidents were reported around the country. Noting that the reports involved cans filled at different times in different plants, company officials said it was "almost incomprehensible" that so many could have been tampered with. By week's end 13 people had been arrested on charges of making false claims, at least three others had admitted that their stories were invented -- and authorities remained unconvinced that any of the reports were authentic...
...prepared to tackle a Double Whopper with Cheese and a large French fries at a downtown Houston Burger King last week, Daniel Minturn, a stocky shipping clerk, paused a moment to reflect on the possible consequences: "I do my best off and on to keep to a diet," Minturn sighed. "But everywhere you turn, it's a warning for this and a warning for that. So what's wrong with just now and then going out and enjoying what you want...
...study, which monitored 1,441 patients, was designed to test that proposition. While roughly half the subjects received the standard treatment, the others were put on an intensive program: tests of sugar levels at least four times a day, three or more insulin shots and a special diet. The results were striking: over the 10 years, the group receiving stricter treatment suffered about half as much eye and kidney damage as the other patients...