Word: fatted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jessica Simpson's comebacks, TV has been doling out second and third acts like Halloween candy. Eccentric Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett, p.r. queen Lizzie Grubman and gossip-beset Britney Spears have done reality shows. Kirstie Alley responded to being the butt--so to speak--of tabloid fat jokes on Showtime's sitcom Fat Actress. This summer scandal magnets Tommy Lee and Bobby Brown remind us who they are on NBC and Bravo, while next fall Martha Stewart further pays her debt to society on The Apprentice...
...nutrition researcher. "We decided that we needed something more healthy." The parents now run their own independent cafeteria with eight employees. It regularly feeds 300 children - up from 70 a little over a decade ago. In Britain, where school lunches can be an awful reminder of the country's fat- and starch-filled culinary past, celebrity chef Oliver's campaign to improve school food standards bore fruit in March when the government announced an extra $533 million to tackle the crisis. The extra money will be spent on better ingredients and in areas with the poorest services; beginning in September...
...Unilever, the world's leading ice cream manufacturer, intend to take an even bigger bite out of the $32.4 billion global market? By making some of its 2,000 ice cream brands--ranging from Ben & Jerry's to Magnum--a little healthier. This summer the company is launching lower-fat versions of its richest flavors, hoping slimmed-down ice cream will excite consumers increasingly concerned about their waistlines...
...make it fast enough," says Nestlé spokesman Robin Tickle. Unilever is playing up its own "double churned" technology, which, like Nestlé's, blends ingredients slowly at low temperatures. "Unilever is scrambling," says Dreyers CEO T. Gary Rogers of his rival's recent efforts to develop tasty low-fat products...
...about obesity. People in the U.S. are ridiculously overweight compared with those in Europe, let alone Asia. The money spent here to treat increased numbers of cases of diabetes and coronary disease alone should tell us that it is not "O.K. to be pudgy." Wake up, Americans! You are fat and paying a dreadful price for failing to eat less and exercise more. Obesity is an epidemic...