Word: diets
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...coincidence that California, land of the experimental health regimen, was home to Judy Mazel's wildly successful 1981 best seller, The Beverly Hills Diet. An aspiring actress with no medical training, Mazel became frustrated in her quest to lose weight and invented her own program, which required eating fruit for 10 days and consuming just one type of food, such as carbs or proteins, at a time. Panned by health professionals, Mazel struck a chord with dieters who believed that self-educated people often know better than experts. In the '80s, Mazel, who said she lost...
...specific dietary patterns include taking multivitamins containing folic acid and iron, avoiding trans fats, and choosing fish, eggs, and whole grains over chicken, red meat, and white bread. The researchers conducted the study by surveying a group of 18,000 women struggling with infertility on their lifestyle and diets. Chavarro said that there are many causes of infertility in women, including blocked fallopian tubes, which cannot be treated by strictly dietary and physical means. However, the most common contributor to female infertility—problems with ovulation—can often be abetted by these means, according to the study...
...time as a starving student in Manhattan and as I re-read the familiar pages, I had an epiphany. This was me: I had no money, I lived in a tiny apartment; in all essentials I was Laurie Colwin. My reading inspired me to forsake my nutritional but meatless diet for one that involved filet mignon and red wine on payday and a strict diet of ramen for the second half of every week. This is the danger and the beauty of food writing. It influences your daily life by changing your own relationship to food?...
...forbidden to have more than two children, and families went to great lengths to ensure that at least one was a son - including aborting girl babies, especially if they already had one daughter. Vietnamese online forums carry threads devoted to how to ensure conceiving a boy - everything from special diet to especially rigorous sex to pre-intercourse douching with an alkaline solution. "I've tried everything, and even cleaned with the special solution, but I am still pregnant with a girl," lamented one woman on an online forum. "Do you think my doctor sold me a fake product...
...expectations of food. When Rachael tells you that it's perfectly O.K. to buy prechopped onion from the supermarket... I mean, how hard is it to chop an onion? The takeaway is, I could cook, but [instead] I'll finish this bag of Cheetos and that gallon of Diet Pepsi before dying of diabetes...