Word: diets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well as his offscreen antics. "John is a lot of fun," says Barr. "He puts us on the floor." Director John Pasquin praises Goodman's "fertile imagination" as an actor. In one upcoming episode, his character is caught eating ice cream when he is supposed to be on a diet. Goodman improvised the notion of quickly swallowing the ice cream and then fighting off a piercing headache from the cold. Marvels Pasquin: "It was totally rooted in the situation, not something you would ordinarily think of, and hysterically funny...
...leaders of Japan's long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party begin to retire, more and more young sons are riding into office on their parents' coattails. About 40% of the 325 L.D.P. candidates running in the Feb. 18 Lower House elections are children of Diet members. These elections will determine whether the ruling party, now in jeopardy after losing its majority in the Upper House last July, can hold on to control of the government it has dominated for 35 years. But the prevalence of the nisei giin, or second- ^ generation politicians, has raised fears that Japanese politics is increasingly being...
Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu came out punching when the campaign for this month's legislative elections began in the lower house of the Diet last week. Kaifu deftly defended his ruling Liberal Democratic Party against corruption charges and attacks on the ten-month-old consumption tax. Conceded Socialist leader Takako Doi: "He's done his homework...
...dietary oracle. Too often scientific ground shifts, and today's notion of sound nutritional advice becomes tomorrow's myth. The latest case in point: oat bran. Two years ago, the high-fiber grain was elevated to alimentary sainthood after a few studies showed that people who ate a diet rich in the stuff enjoyed a significant drop in their cholesterol levels. Doctors began recommending the grain to patients, and food manufacturers rushed to add it to everything from muffins to tortilla chips...
...cholesterol levels. In fact, it works no better than low-fiber grains and causes more bloating and diarrhea than some. In a study performed at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Frank Sacks and colleagues randomly switched 20 healthy men and women between two six-week diets: one contained 100 grams of oat bran daily, the other 100 grams of low-fiber wheat. Cholesterol levels dropped an average 7.5% -- no matter the diet. The simple explanation: both grains work indirectly by displacing other items in the diet. People who fill up on oat bran or wheat have...