Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans to eat less and exercise more, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration last week gave the green light to yet another weight-loss shortcut, recommending approval of a new drug, called orlistat, that prevents the body from absorbing as much as 30% of the fat it takes...
...diet-in-a-pill, to be marketed as Xenical, works by disabling pancreatic enzymes that help the intestines absorb the fat in foods. The drug produces "a kind of intestinal aversion" to fat, explains Dr. Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University, an FDA adviser. "Patients learn there are consequences to eating more...
...problem is that the vegetarian entrees have three times as much fat and they're bad also. They have a bad fat-to-taste ratio," says Nguyen...
Vegetarians are particularly unhappy about the fat content of the vegetarian entrees...
...dictator in the making. "Etienne, Etienne, it's your name that chased out Mobutu, it also will chase out Kabila," chanted supporters of longtime democratic opposition leader Etienne Tsisekedi, who, twice ousted as prime minister under Mobutu, had hoped to be named to the post again under Kabila. Fat chance. A partial list of 13 Cabinet appointments unveiled Friday reads like a Who's Who of Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo. Although two posts were granted to Tsisekedi's party, the outspoken Mobutu critic was left out. Huffed a humiliated Tsisekedi...