Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend told her about an experimental diet drug being tested at nearby Baylor University, and Smith signed up. For two years, she and thousands of other overweight patients maintained a low-fat diet, exercised--and swallowed a medication called orlistat three times a day. "My clothes started fitting a lot looser after a month," she says. Today Smith is down to 150 lbs., her prepregnancy weight. Not only that, but she's maintaining the loss and hopes to drop even more...
...reason may be that hardly any of the drug is absorbed into the body. Unlike all previous diet drugs, orlistat doesn't reduce appetite. Instead, it interferes with an intestinal enzyme that breaks down dietary fat into an absorbable form. In essence, orlistat turns normal fat into something akin to Olestra, the fat-free fat Procter & Gamble has been using in snack foods since...
...result, about a third of the fat that would ordinarily be taken into the body is flushed right through the digestive system. Unfortunately, so are vitamins A, D, E and K, which bind to fat molecules. To make sure that patients don't develop vitamin deficiencies, the FDA requires that the Xenical label recommend that users take a multivitamin two hours before or after taking the drug...
...Lawns lost their romantic associations with English manor living years ago. The concept of the lawn is now a thoroughly American one and one thoroughly devoid of romance. A mental image of suburbia literally couldn't exist without the lawn (and the fat balding man standing around in his boxers, watering it with a flaccid garden hose, but more on that later) --suburbs were in fact designed around lawns. Jenkins describes the flight to suburbia and the ascendancy of the single-family home with front yard as "the most characteristic single feature of European settlement in North America...
...York City where I grew up. Maybe I'm not quite ready to break out the turntables and drop rhymes like my childhood in a multi-acre, tree-lined estate compels me to. But at least my relationship with hip-hop goes beyond a fondness for the Fat Boys. Because when I was growing up, everyone's father was a lawyer, and everyone's mother was a real estate agent. And you're going to tell me that that's not real...