Word: diets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prime rib and a baked potato smothered in butter. But ever since she checked into the hospital with chest pains last year and learned that her cholesterol level was in the upper stratosphere, the 57-year-old office manager has tried to cut down on the fat in her diet. Easier said than done. Although the labels on every other product in the grocery store promised nutritional nirvana, Vavreck found herself floundering in quagmires of grease, salt, corn syrup and other dubious digestibles. "I thought I was doing pretty well because I was always buying the stuff that said...
...Diet Coke contains more than the one heavily advertised calorie per can (so does Diet Pepsi...
...trust Mrs. Smith, whom can you trust? "The labels are all distorted," says Donna Krone, 41, an attorney in New York City who tries to sandwich a healthy diet into her high-pressure workweek. "The whole mess makes me want to just give up and order in Chinese food...
...Stouffer's Lean Cuisine, which proudly boasts "Never more than a gram of sodium" in its print advertisements. While the claim is true, the implication -- that this is a very low-salt product -- is not. Nutritionists normally measure sodium in milligrams (thousandths of a gram), not grams. Several diet delights from Stouffer's contain almost half the amount of sodium allowed daily on a typical salt-restricted diet...
...there are pockets of resistance to the new thinking. Social X rays still reign in the upper middle class, where being thin is a moral imperative. Far more pernicious is the attitude of youngsters, who seem willing to sacrifice their health for their looks. About 70% of teenage girls diet, and surveys show that even fourth-graders are worrying about flabby thighs. Dr. John Brunzell, a medical professor at the University of Washington, blames magazines and TV for encouraging teenage girls to be slender and teenage boys to be muscular. "This popularized image is out of touch with reality...