Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still have a difficult time recommending an Atkins-style, high-saturated-fat diet to my patients. Though the diet does provide a quick weight loss and is very satiating, I am concerned about its possible effects on people with serious heart, liver or kidney disease and cancer. As long as you are healthy, a high-fat diet is usually fine for a while. But after about a month, you should go off it. That's the problem. When people begin to go off the strictest form of the diet, they have to be extremely careful as they increase the amount...
...depend on his employer to keep him healthy and, to some degree, sane. On days when he doesn't bicycle to work, the father of two jogs on a treadmill in the HP fitness center. He studies meditation and stress reduction, gets flu shots, has his blood and body fat checked, and gets advice from company crisis counselors--all at work and for little or no cost...
...employers have stopped short of ordering mandatory massages. But many firms encourage workers, for example, to have their cholesterol checked on company time. The U.S. division of drugmaker Hoffmann-La Roche gives each employee $100 for joining a fitness club. Workers who buy one low-fat or vegetarian meal in the company cafeteria get another one free. Through incentives, the company has persuaded 93% of employees to undergo on-site checkups...
...time filming started, Crowe was Wigand, with folds of fat around his face. He even waddled like Wigand. Marie Brenner, the Vanity Fair writer whose article inspired The Insider, was astonished to see Wigand on the set one day. It was Crowe, of course. "I saw Wigand for two months in 1996, when he was shattered, frightened, in his darkest time," she recalls. "Yet this actor, after a day of golf, was able to intuit his throttled energy, his tension." Hollywood is equally impressed by the actor. Ridley Scott cast Crowe as the lead in next spring's Gladiator...
PHILOSOPHY Cut out the carbs (no more than 20g a day, or what's found in one corn muffin) so you burn off your stored fat...