Word: diets
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...Already, says Kepplinger, the family's health is visibly improving, thanks to a more balanced diet, light and fresh air. He notes that the 5-year-old boy, Felix, in particular, "is getting more and more lively. He's fascinated by contact. He's fascinated by jokes and humor." According to one newspaper report, when Felix first saw the sun in April he cooed with joy. After years of unimaginable bleakness, it is finally time to step into the light. With reporting by Bethany Bell/Amstetten, Ursula Sautter/Bonn and D.J. Siegel/London...
...allure of food: yumminess. As she opines, ?That crap?s for rich people who hate themselves.? And later: ?I?m not tryin? to be dramatic, but I would rather be shot in the face than eat this food.? Why shouldn?t she stick to her diet of Dr. Pepper, Pringles, TastyKakes, Red Bull and the occasional cigarette? And when threats don?t work, Angie tries logic: ?There?s a thing called being too healthy. That?s what killed Bruce Lee.? (It was more likely a brain aneurysm.) Angie/Amy may lose this debate on points...
...house guarded by towering saguaro cacti. Smart, funny and cheery, Meyer does not seem noticeably undead in person. An observant Mormon, she doesn't drink alcohol and has never seen an R-rated movie. She's not perfect--although Mormons avoid caffeine on principle, she drinks the occasional cherry Diet Pepsi. "It's about keeping yourself free of addictions," she explains, sitting on a huge couch in her living room. "We have free will, which is a huge gift from God. If you tie that up with something like, I don't know, cocaine, then you don't really have...
...book on Chinese restaurants!”THC: You cite in your book the impressive statistic that the U.S. has more Chinese restaurants than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Kentucky Fried Chickens combined. What is it about Chinese food that makes it such a substantive part of the American diet? JL: Well, it’s the most prolific food on the planet—served on all seven continents, and in space! There’s thermo-stabilized sweet-and-sour pork. So it’s not just Americanized; it’s Indianified, Koreanized, Mexicanized. Chinese food...
...motto—“See one, do one, teach one”—boils down simply and cleanly to the reversal of the “apple a day” adage. After too many years with not enough apples in the modern diet, it’s the doctor’s turn to give the apple—this time in the form of a recipe or two for baked apples and homemade apple sauce. According to this philosophy, if cooking returns to its roots and becomes commonplace knowledge among members of a society...