Word: diets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your problems are larger and darker. You have inoperable cancer. You are depressed and frightened. You ask your oncologist whether you should stop smoking or change your diet. He shrugs and looks glum. "If you want to," he says, "but at this point it probably doesn't matter...
William Jarvis, public-health professor at Loma Linda University in Southern California, condemns virtually all alternative medicine. The founder of the National Council Against Health Fraud, he rejects macrobiotics as "not only unproven but a bizarre and dangerous diet for sick people." Aromatherapy is "crazy," he says. "If you are going to claim that something is safe and effective for human disease, you need to have proof...
...dirty water or human contact, is extremely common: it is present in the gut of 50% of Americans and of up to 90% of people in poorer regions of Asia and Latin America. Researchers believe chronic inflammation, caused by the bacterium, combines with other risk factors, including a salty diet low in fresh fruit and vegetables, to cause the cancer...
...describes the monologue, his 13th, as being "about a man who can't write a book about a man who can't take a vacation." Monster in a Box is both brilliant and funny, expertly combining Freud's intellectualism with the scatological humor involved in recounting a total soybean diet--which Gray once experienced while depressed in Houston...
Kaifu's political collapse followed a week of legislative maneuvering that dramatized his inability to corral party support. A set of political-reform bills was killed in the Diet at the committee level. Kaifu erupted in anger and hinted that he might dissolve the assembly. It was an empty threat that cost Kaifu what little party respect he enjoyed...