Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eaters to reduce consumption of saturated fats and cholesterol and to limit intake of sugar and salt. Nutritionists and consumer groups applauded the reiteration, since the meat, dairy and sugar industries had been pushing for more relaxed standards. The recommendations stop short, however, of advocating a low-fat, high-fiber diet to protect against colon cancer, a regimen that has been endorsed by the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society. The new guidelines note that a link has been suggested between cancer and diets low in fiber, but conclude, "Whether this is true...
...resisted the oleaginous charms of Dr. Bruce Fleckstein, a periodontist whose hands tend to roam from his drill and who has a taste for taking pictures of his female patients that reveal more than the condition of their root canals. Judith even has the sweetly articulated moral fiber to resist the more attractive proposals of the nice police detective (Raul Julia) who is investigating Dr. Bruce's entirely justifiable homicide...
...like the best roller-coaster ride you had when you were a ten-year- old." So says Steven Trotter, 22, of his 176-ft. plunge over Niagara Falls last week. Lying inside two pickle barrels ringed with giant inflated inner tubes and layers of fiber glass, the part-time bartender from Barrington, R.I., is the seventh known person to go over the falls and survive. Trotter, who carried a two-way radio and two oxygen tanks in the event he ran into trouble at the bottom of the falls, says he took the plunge "to get recognition as a stunt...
...certain how the hijackers of TWA Flight 847 spirited their 9-mm pistol and two grenades aboard the plane. Ali Atwa, a member of the Shi'ite team who did not board and was subsequently arrested in Athens, told officials that the weapons had been wrapped in fiber glass to avoid detection. Security experts, who say that fiber glass cannot foil X-ray machines, believe it is more likely that the arms had been planted on the plane by an accomplice, perhaps an airport worker...
...play down its connections with terrorists in hopes of winning international support for its 4 1/2-year struggle against Iraq. Atwa told police that his friends had managed to smuggle two grenades and a 9-mm pistol through the airport's X-ray machines by wrapping the weapons in fiber glass insulation...