Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TODAY, HOWEVER, we are encouraged to look for greatness only within ourselves. Self-perfection used to be the work of a lifetime. Today, it is what happens after a weekend at the fat farm. Character used to mean demanding more of oneself than one could expect of others. Today, it is riding one's biorhythms to a new high of self-awareness. Being a hero used to involve the self-discipline needed to overcome daunting odds. In our post-mood ring society, being a hero is being yourself...
...swimsuit issue seems to confirm his tendency to hold all women to impossibly high physical standards. You can almost hear him say, "Too skinny. Too fat. Too big. Too flat. Too small. Too tall," or "She has a zit on her chin, yech...
Some efforts are being made to get children to shape up and eat right. The largest impact should come this fall; the federal school lunch program, which feeds 24 million students each day, is revising menus to reduce fat, sugar and salt. On local levels, some undertakings are informal. For example, the Sports Training Institute in New York City is setting up exercise pep talks by such legendary athletes as John Havlicek and Arthur Ashe. Other attempts are more structured. Dayton is experimenting with Gamefield Fitness Systems at 45 of the city's schools. Designed by the National Fitness Campaign...
...privately developed programs that are being adopted by educational systems around the nation. Students take six fitness tests and keep a food-and-drink diary for three days. The information is fed into a computer, which prints out an individual 20-page dossier, complete with sketches of where body fat is deposited plus diet and exercise recommendations. To keep participants motivated, Shape Up, which is funded by All American Gourmet, dishes out insignia T shirts, shorts and headbands...
Scoring high in fat and flab, low in strength, endurance and flexibility, American children are disgracefully unfit, say experts...