Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Those who survive get unprecedented autonomy but have to demonstrate extraordinary results. Some feel pressured to shave their stats; as the New York Daily News reported last fall, a commander in the Bronx told his troops that assault arrests could be made only when victims suffered broken bones, not fat lips or black eyes. Crimes in the category plummeted in his precinct...
...getting olestra approved has taken nearly a quarter-century, a pace some in the food industry consider outrageously glacial. It was way back in 1959, in fact, that biochemists at P&G's Miami Valley research campus, near Cincinnati, Ohio, began trying to understand how the body digests fat. In particular, they were trying to identify a kind of fat that premature infants might digest more easily...
Even those who favored approval acknowledge that olestra could result in some nasty surprises. The University of Illinois' Chassy, for example, is still concerned about the fat's effect on carotenoids. As long as olestra is limited to snack foods, he thinks it probably won't cause major problems. But he's not absolutely certain. "Three or four years from now," he says, "we might want to review olestra again...
...Americans really want more protection than they already have from food additives? Or would they rather be free to make their own choices? While Kessler hasn't tipped his hand, it's likely that under the current law, he'll probably have to let P&G bring fat-free fat to market and let consumers decide its fate. Chef John Folse, who runs a food-products company as well as his restaurant, thinks he already knows the answer. "If people have the option of going to the grocery store and choosing from 10 oils, one of which is olestra...
...former pipe smoker, Kessler has boldly pursued the regulation of tobacco as an addictive drug and has been particularly critical of cigarette ads aimed at children (he calls smoking a "pediatric disease"). One of his proudest achievements was making sure every item of processed food clearly lists its fat, fiber and calorie contents. "The nutrition facts labels changed literally every product in the supermarket," Kessler says. "You used to walk in and not know what to believe...