Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article is misleading in its implication that everybody should follow strict dietary regimens necessary for those with abnormally high blood-cholesterol levels. Your headline, "Hold the Eggs and Butter," carries unjustified nutritional implications. You even seem to question the healthfulness of a major group of highly nutritious foodstuffs, including meat, eggs, dairy products and seafoods. These traditional foods are highly valuable in the diet because they are rich in a large number of essential nutrients: vitamins, minerals and protein of high nutritional value. The reader of your article is likely to conclude that these foods should be severely restricted...
Sometimes the author suspects that the whole nation is a theater of the absurd. In the battle between Quebec's French separatists and its anglophone minority, violent verbal gestures are made. The provincial government forbids the use of the English word hamburger; "hambourgeois" is the meat substitute. In Montreal, police become provincial celebrities not by seizing heroin but by impounding 15,000 Dunkin' Donut bags because the printing is not bilingual...
Instead of blaming red meat and eggs for their health problems, maybe people should give some thought to their gluttony. We in the livestock business have never advocated overindulgence. We produce high-quality products rich in vitamins, iron and protein. If the types of food we have been consuming for thousands of years are so bad for us, why is it that each generation is bigger and healthier and lives longer than the previous...
...women). Above all, the person who wishes to dine for success should avoid dishes that the authors label as wimpy: chicken, quiche and casseroles. They can guarantee a mailroom job and brown bags for life. A power luncher is encouraged to eat things uncooked. Raw oysters, raw meat and raw onions evoke a suitable image. Food size is equally important: "Steak is macho, and the bigger the steak, the more macho it becomes." Emulation is the ultimate in oneupmanship, since it creates a common bond with a lunch companion. "It's a very high power play to order...
...bankers argued that Argentina could pay at least part of its interest with some $400 million or more that the country has on hand from the sales of such exports as meat and grain. But Grinspun said the money was needed to pay for imports. He asked for new loans and suggested that Argentina be given 15 years to pay off its debt, nearly half of which comes due this year. "I must declare very clearly to you," the Minister warned, "that Argentina cannot continue to devote two-thirds of its export earnings and 8% of its national production...