Word: diets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usually have light, fruity flavors. But before Pepsi takes the plunge, the company plans to do some careful market testing. The clear beverage would not replace regular Pepsi, and it might have a somewhat different flavor. Meanwhile, archrival Coca-Cola is reportedly studying a clear version of its Tab diet cola...
Bradshaw is a family tell-all in the public arena -- you're only as sick as your secrets is the rule -- but is reticent in private. Sipping a diet soda in a hotel room a few hours after the arduous Manhattan workshop, he acknowledges that his omnipresent smile sometimes hides more desperate feelings. His father's death at 62 haunts him ("That's just four years from now in my own life"), and he has lingering regrets about himself as a young father. He was married in 1969; he and ex-wife Nancy had a son and he helped raise...
...disease, and many of them are hereditary and, taken by themselves, are beyond a person's control. But the bewildering research has not undermined the essential facts: by far the most important risk factors remain smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. These can be offset by changes in diet and behavior...
...medicine. But as heart disease researcher Dean Ornish knows from experience, funding for such research is extremely difficult to come by. Despite impeccable credentials from Harvard and Baylor University, Ornish was at first unable to get grants from the government or the American Heart Association for his work using diet and relaxation to treat cardiac patients. "They said it was impossible to reverse heart disease. They said you need to use drugs, because you can't motivate people to change their ways over a long time." Ornish eventually turned to real estate barons and oil moguls for funding. "Medical training...
...said, irritated, but how would I stay awake to finish the book I was working on? "Try beer," offered another convert. "Drinking one every hour won't get you plastered, and it has a lot of protein and carbohydrates." I nodded appreciatively: this was the kind of alternative diet I could live with...