Word: diets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shed a few pounds would be easier to keep. And the canny scientists and entrepreneurs who developed this antiflab formula would be richer than Ross Perot. Unfortunately, repeated efforts to produce a weight-loss wonder drug have been no more successful than Perot's presidential bid. Dozens of diet pills have come and gone, raking in billions of dollars for pharmaceutical manufacturers. But for long-term effectiveness, the pills might as well have been chocolate-covered bonbons...
...include several drugs not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration and some that are available by prescription but up to now have been used for purposes other than weight loss. They appear to be much safer than addicive amphetamines -- whose widespread abuse 20 years ago temporarily gave diet pills a bad reputation -- and may be far more effective than the many popular over-the-counter remedies, such as Dexatrim and Acutrim, that are marketed as appetite suppressants. Nonetheless, Hamilton and other doctors caution that the new medications do not work for everyone and cannot do the job entirely...
...some 40 that are in print now -- as well as character dolls of the Concord girls, period clothing from Lanz, antique-style jewelry at J.C. Penney and baskets of scented products from Crabtree & Evelyn. The Alcotts would be in awe of every item. They had few possessions, and their diet consisted mostly of the "aspiring" vegetables -- grown aboveground -- that papa Bronson approved...
...Sports and exercise can be related to low body fat," Shumway said, "And that can easily be fixed with your diet...
From the results of her studies, Frisch concluded that long-term moderate exercise and cutting out carbonated beverages from the diet are of extreme benefit to women...