Word: fatted
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...cancer. The women were divided into two groups. The first group was asked to eat five servings a day of fruits and vegetables, a diet the National Cancer Institute recommends for everyone. The other group of women received intensive nutritional counseling - including cooking classes - to help them decrease their fat intake to 15% a day and increase their regular fiber intake to 30 grams a day. These women were instructed to ramp up their fruit and vegetable intake to about 12 servings...
...groups of women gained weight during the study, Gapstur and Khan say they must have underreported their caloric intake. Had the women reduced their total calories, they would have lost weight. The editorial authors also note that the high-vegetable group never quite reached the 15% mark for daily fat consumption...
...Shrewsbury complex. Tim Baker, the plant's operations manager, says employees get excited about coming up with new ways to salvage. "Our people are very passionate about not throwing things away," says Baker. "It's like tossing away money." And you don't become the industry's fat Cat doing foolish things like that...
...that moment, I really loved the U.S., regardless of Enlightenment platitudes. We may be fat, loutish, and drunk, but more than anyone we know how to have fun. There is no stern Gallic conscience telling us, “One must not make fools of ourselves in public.” If anything, Americans feel a solemn duty to make fools of themselves in public. And that, in short, is what I learned this Fourth of July...
...Instead of sitting on my bum in the house, busy being happy and fat this summer, I ought to be off saving the world—or at least cleaning my plate on behalf of all those starving children in Africa. But I can’t even manage that: Every time I open the refrigerator, out tumbles another Tupperware tub full of leftovers. How can I justify that kind of overabundance, that heavy plunk of plastic hitting the kitchen floor? Am I allowed a carefree and extravagant and totally unconstructive summer for myself—what a sympathetic...