Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON--If the energy required to maintain the fat on overweight Americans were used to generate electricity, it could supply the annual residential needs of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, two scientists said yesterday...
These and other scientists findings indicate that dioxin may accumilate in the body. Even if a person is exposed to a very low dosage of dioxin, repeated exposures have the same effect as one massive dose. Some scientists also speculate that dioxin may build up in the body fat producing toxic effects when the fat is broken down by weight loss. Accumulation would explain the characteristic symptoms of dioxin that occur years after a veteran served in a sprayed area...
...evidence indicates that people who live near sprayed areas are not the only ones who may suffer from the continued use of this herbicide. Matthew Meselson, professor of Biology at Harvard, published an alarming study showing that dioxin is present in beef fat at levels that have killed laboratory animals. Cattle graze on the sprayed rangelands and ingest the herbicide. He also found disturbingly high levels of dioxin in mothers' milk which may poison nursing children. While Meselson cautions that his study involves too small a sampling to be conclusive, he is nevertheless concerned about the continued...
...tasted worse steaks." Trillin, however, has an edge on his fellow gluttons, whom he describes as Big Hungry Boys. A peripatetic correspondent for The New Yorker for the past eleven years, he has an excuse to roam the country at will, eating, sometimes quite literally, off the fat of the land. A writer who has appetite, will travel, could hardly ask for a tastier assignment...
...South day, Caywood-Moore was bouncing around Building Four in a frilly Janis outfit, fluffing her boa. Her surgery is only half-complete--which is why, O'Day explained, she looks nothing at all like Janis Joplin. "Maybe I could put in zits," he said thoughtfully. "Anything but get fat," said the scrawny Caywood-Moore, "I've been fat all my life...