Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stale ! Whenever the bakers of this country - excusing the independent souls in our small towns who still know what bread is - stop turning out stuff that is absorbent cotton in the mouth and lead in the stomach, bread will become once more a part of America's diet, reducing or otherwise...
...Angeles, a beer ad urged: DON'T GO TO WAIST DRINK REGAL PALE. In New York. Minneapolis and five other cities, Stouffer's restaurants offered special low-calorie lunches; the Pennsylvania Railroad had a 470-calorie "Streamliner" on its dining-car menus. Domino Sugar asked a "diet-conscious public to recognize that three teaspoons of sugar actually contain fewer calories than half a grapefruit . . . or an apple ... or even three small tomatoes...
...were locked in the battle of the bulge. A recent Gallup poll showed that 34 million Americans admit to being overweight; the American Medical Association has described obesity as America's No. i health problem, noting a far higher death rate among the overweight. Result: a boom in diet charts, low-calorie foods, and a new, "nonfattening" sales campaign by the U.S. food and beverage industries...
Among the hardest hit has been the beleaguered dairy industry. A dairy-association survey showed that: I) at any given time, about one-quarter of the U.S. population is on a diet; 2) the first thing dieters are likely to give up is milk products. Per capita consumption of whole milk and butter has dropped 19% since the war. But consumption of low-calorie skim milk and nonfat dry milk has risen as much as 136%. To fight the diet menace, the dairy farmers will spend between $6 million and $10 million in the next year, touting milk...
...publishers of Avon Books (price range: 25? to 35?) sell more than 20 million, copies a year, chiefly by serving up westerns, whodunits and the kind of boy-meets-girl story that can be illustrated by a ripe cheesecake jacket. Occasionally, however, Avon offers a change of diet, and its latest, Stories in the Modern Manner, is an adventure in highbrow smorgasbord: 14 short stories and a one-act play from the literary bimonthly, Partisan Review. The editors never explain what the tag "modern manner" means, but most of these stories do have one thing in common: they are about...