Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their constant enthusiasm for change, Americans have long been the butt of the rest of the world's jokes for embracing the latest nostrums and potions, from patent medicines to vitamin E. But in recent years, argues , Barsky, Americans have taken their concern for good health to extremes, fretting about every random ache and pain. Over the past 15 years, he reports, polls show people are complaining more about symptoms of illness; those who say they are satisfied with their health dropped from 61% in the 1970s to 55% in the mid-1980s. Americans seem to be on the verge...
Both Barsky and Glassner are quick to point out that they do not deride the value of healthy living, only the obsessive quality that now surrounds staying fat-free and well. "Because health has become synonymous with overall well- being, it has become an end in itself, a paramount aim of life," writes Barsky. In fact, keeping fit has become "quasi-religious" for some Americans, says Boston University Sociologist Peter Berger. With evangelistic fervor, Body-Building Impresario Jack La Lanne, 73, whose name adorns 60 health clubs on the East and West coasts, declares, "When you quit exercising...
...today's temple of the body is the health spa, its altar is the Nautilus machine and its Bible is Prevention, the 38-year-old monthly health magazine (circ. 2.9 million). Prevention once ran an article on how to guard against skin cancer; each year, it said, readers should measure every mole on their bodies (with a little help from their friends) and keep careful records on a diagram...
...other, more realistic options" to this "tyranny of perfection." He does, however, see some hope in the notion that people are beginning to discover that what they once thought of as the ideal body isn't quite so ideal after all. Instead, "it stands not only for beauty and health," he says, "but also for false hopes and prejudices." Moreover, he notes, "that knowledge may be disheartening at first, but it also frees us -- to exercise and eat in ways that match our own needs rather than the dictates of the latest...
...profits plummeted to $5.2 million. Bally, which owns four gambling casinos in Nevada and New Jersey, will keep making slot machines and video lottery games, which earned $182 million last year. In the Chicago plant used to make the arcade games, Bally will produce weight-lifting machines and other health-club equipment for Life Fitness, a subsidiary...