Word: diets
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...room, not just casting a shadow but creating a total eclipse. At the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester, Mass., Kennedy packed the hall with labor leaders, party loyalists and other wildlife, then delivered a fire-and-brimstone endorsement speech that brought them leaping to their feet. Off his diet and about to bust every stitch of his too small blue suit, he was a great, sweaty, painted pumpkin, with a voice that raised the roof...
...forced to lay off 4,000 workers. He vows never to do that again, even if it means keeping his company leaner and meaner than seems necessary. "Laying off workers in a tough job market was the worst feeling in the world," he says as he sips his fourth Diet Coke of the day. "It made me physically...
DIXIELAND DOWNER A nationwide study finds Southerners are more likely to have high blood pressure than folks living elsewhere in the country. The worst off: those in the rural South. Limited access to health care may be partly to blame, but the Southern diet--rich in salty, fried foods--no doubt plays a role...
...does the fact that they're less prone to heart failure mean that Japanese and Mediterraneans have stronger tickers than Northern Europeans and Americans? Not exactly. The Dutch researchers who conducted the study believe it's more a function of cultural factors such as diet: Mediterraneans and Japanese tend to favor low-cholesterol diets, low on meats and fried foods and heavy on fish and olive oil. The authors of the study suggest that in high-risk regions the standard blood pressure test included in most checkups be replaced by a "global score" that includes such factors as cholesterol level...
...have heard diet talk in January all my life, maybe because I was brought up in Kansas City, Mo.--a place that in rankings of fattest cities never finishes out of the money. My hometown's fatness, I finally decided, may have something to do with the fact that it finishes last in surveys of how expensive an average meal is from city to city. As I envision the scene, one of my high school friends who has been presented the check for a huge fried-chicken feed says, "You know, we could order this meal all over again...