Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vice President did nothing wrong when they dialed up donors for cash. This time the lead came not from news reports or Republicans but from Democrats. Just days before, Democratic National Committee lawyers turned over a document prepared for D.N.C. finance chairman Alan Solomont that named 30 fat cats who, in exchange for a telephone call from the White House, might be lured onto the party's finance board. The price of entry: a donation of $100,000 or a promise to raise $250,000. Next to each name was a tiny box indicating whether the call should be made...
...They scoff at Sears' contention that ancient people shrank in height after the invention of bread. "Give me a break," says Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "Those kinds of statements are not good science." What about the insulin-makes-you-fat thesis? "Ridiculous," says Stanford University endocrinologist Gerald Reaven. The secret to weight loss, he says, still lies with cutting calories. In fact, skeptics argue, when Zone dieters do lose weight, it's only because the Zone's rigid calculus delivers a high-bulk, low-calorie diet--hardly a revolutionary discovery...
Unlike the pill-popping, shake-slurping diet crazes of the 1980s, the Zone has a digestible but unorthodox premise: staying trim depends mainly on eating meals in which 40% of the calories come from carbohydrates, 30% from protein and 30% from fat. Or, put another way: eat the butter; hold the bread...
Sears' approach goes against the grain in more ways than one. His books contradict the prevailing orthodoxy of high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets. He contends that an excess of carbs forces the body to overproduce insulin, a hormone that promotes fat storage. The Zone doesn't forbid all carbs--high-fiber fruits and vegetables are fine--but it does discourage all the tastier ones. Like pasta, rice and bagels. Sears' position: Get over it. "If all bread left the face of the earth, we'd have a much healthier planet," he declares...
...last week, the big dogs hunt while the little dogs stay on the porch, which is an old midwestern truism that means exactly nothing. Nevertheless, now is playoff positioning time, which means expect the favorites to come up big this week. So pick the Chiefs to cover that fat 9.5 point spread against the Chargers -- KC's a young team and the coaches will be telling players that a big win is sure to impress the bowl scouts. Likewise, the Pack minus 6.5 on the road against Carolina. And reverse the trend to take the Bills getting five at home...