Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe it has something to do with what they're eating: those orders of fettuccine Alfredo that the Center for Science in the Public Interest calls "a heart attack on a plate," or those tubs of greasy movie-theater popcorn, which pack four days' worth of fat into a container nearly as big as a fire bucket, or those servings of extra-rich Haagen-Dazs Triple Brownie Overload, each of which contains 44 grams of fat -- the artery clogging equivalent of half a stick of butter...
Nutritionists say it really boils down to this: despite all the fuss about diet and fitness, Americans in the '80s ate too much and exercised too little. In thermodynamic terms, they took in more calories than they burned, and they stored the excess as fat...
Saturday night at the Cheesecake Factory in Atlanta: the restaurant is packed with customers waiting up to an hour and a half to stuff themselves with slices of fat-laden cheesecake so thick that most will be forced to take home a doggy bag. A half-pound slice of cheesecake may contain 700 calories -- roughly a third of an adult's recommended daily allowance.Manager Michael Moore notes that the Factory's reduced-calorie cheesecakes languished on the shelves when they were introduced last year. "If people want cheesecake, they don't want 'lite,"' he says. "They come to our restaurant...
...Elevens just make things worse. Takeout-food consumption climbed sharply in the 1980s -- up about 13%, according to a Roper poll -- as Americans found themselves with less and less time to prepare meals. That represents a triple whammy on the waistline: 1) takeout food tends to be high in fat, carbohydrates, sodium and calories; 2) it tends to be eaten quickly, which means more of it is consumed; and 3) it tends to get eaten, all of it, no matter how much of it there is. "I've found that people have no idea what they're eating," says Claudia...
...Center, "We eat out of emotional needs. We eat when we're happy, we eat when we're sad. We've grown up in a way that food is a substitute for many other things." Or as an eating-disorder sufferer put it, "When I get depressed, I eat fat. It coats my nerves and numbs the pain...