Word: diets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent Newsweek article, Dr. Laurence Greenhill of Columbia Medical School called Ritalin "one of the raving successes in psychiatry." Parents everywhere are seeking a mandate from medicine, taking unmanageable children to doctors who tend with very little resistance to diagnose them as ADD and put them on a regular diet of Ritalin, sometimes supplementing the prescription with Prozac...
...much truth is behind the hype? Dubious arthritis "remedies" in the past have included copper bracelets, bee venom and fish oil. What distinguishes this latest panacea is its mix of generally accepted measures--exercise, balanced diet, weight control, stress reduction--with uncritical advocacy of two over-the-counter dietary supplements available at pharmacies and health-food stores...
Every problem movie is really a solution movie; it must offer a cure at the end of the agony; parents may surrender to copelessness but never to hopelessness. So Lori hears of the Ketogenic Diet, a regimen that has quelled seizures in perhaps a third of the epileptic children who've tried it. Among the controversial diet's true believers are the film's director, Jim Abrahams (of the team that created the Airplane! and Naked Gun farces), and his son Charlie, 4, whose seizures ceased after he went on the diet and who plays a cameo role here...
...better cholesterol. Perhaps the most striking finding: underfed animals look as though they will be protected from heart disease. Their levels of high-density lipoprotein -- the good cholesterol that helps keep blood flowing smoothly through the arteries -- are twice as high as in monkeys who eat a normal diet, meaning more food. The downside, of course, is that the healthier monkeys appeared to be hungry much of the time...
...better cholesterol. Perhaps the most striking finding: underfed animals look as though they will be protected from heart disease. Their levels of high-density lipoprotein -- the good cholesterol that helps keep blood flowing smoothly through the arteries -- are twice as high as in monkeys who eat a normal diet, meaning more food. The downside, of course, is that the healthier monkeys appeared to be hungry much of the time...