Word: diets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite its obsession with dieting, the U.S. population seems to grow fatter every year. And so does the industry tailored to respond to the needs and neuroses of those who are fighting, and largely failing, to keep their waistlines under control. Americans spent more than $30 billion last year on such offerings as diet books, videotapes, appetite suppressants, "lite" foods, low-calorie beverages and commercial weight-loss programs. Now the overweight and overwrought are rushing to try the latest raft of crash-diet plans, which promote ways to trim fat quickly by doing little more than taking pills or swilling...
...pressure Wasserstein feels to come up with material is frequently evident. Disappointment that a weekend in Maine was not a chintz-covered, Ralph Lauren-infested affair but rather one where the couch was acrylic and the drink Diet Coke is stretched to five pages. A lunch interview with Philippe de Montebello is a struggle to win his admiration. When she drops a name he recognizes, she writes, "Once again we are on equal ground." Equal ground with the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art? So eager for approval, she becomes the journalistic equivalent of Sally Field at the Academy...
...like ice cream it's fine," Nye told The Crimson, referring to his present administrative post, "but you're not sure if you want a diet of pure ice cream. And I haven't though over whether I really want that...
Those handy Veritas shield paper cups are attractive little tools we use daily to fill with milk, Coke, Diet Sprite, water or apple-cranberry juice. Or all of the above. It's very easy to pick up two or three or six of these cups, even if we could get by with...
...Girls" do not like to diet; girls like approval. Approval makes them feel good about themselves. But it is time we placed stock in our bodies as our selves, or an immediate extension of them, time we accepted them, time we stopped accepting weight recommendations and body advice. Only then will we get back our mental health, to which a healthy appearance is only subsidiary...