Word: milks
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...wheat, a record overstock, and 847 million bu. of soybeans, almost 40% more than at the same time last year. Kansas alone held 178.8 million bu. of grain sorghum, a livestock feed, almost 80% more than in June 1985. The U.S. is producing a huge excess of milk as well, a problem reduced only partly by the USDA's program this year to pay thousands of dairy farmers some $1.8 billion to send their herds to slaughter or export markets...
...Mitch Zeller of the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest. For example, some people may be allergic to ingredients in fast foods. Stricter labeling, however, is only a small step to better health. As long as people enjoy the taste of big burgers, French fries and milk shakes -- high fat, high salt, high calories and all -- the fast-food fix will prevail...
...hospital. Pugliese and Pediatric Nutritionist Michelle Weyman-Daum reviewed the records of seven children, age seven months to 22 months, and found that the youngsters were all on low-fat, low-cholesterol diets and getting only 63% to 94% of the calories they needed. Parents typically substituted skim milk for whole, fed their toddlers lean meat and complex carbohydrates, and forbade eating between meals...
...proper for adults--the kind suggested by the American Heart Association--but they are not appropriate for a growing child." Counseling is sometimes necessary to change parents' thinking, he adds. But once youngsters are placed on expanded diets, they quickly recover. After two months of balanced meals and whole milk, Noelle started growing again, and now, notes Pugliese, "she's doing very well...
Because of cheap fares, red ink has flowed more widely across the skies than coffee, tea or milk. In the first quarter, United Airlines, the largest U.S. carrier, lost $103 million. TWA did even worse, dropping $170 million. Long-troubled Pan American, which sold off its Pacific routes to United for some $750 million last year, lost $118 million. Indeed, in the entire U.S., only three sizable airlines showed a first-quarter profit: Southwest, which squeezed $7.1 million into the black; American ($4.2 million); and Aloha ($1.8 million). Says Michael Derchin, an airline expert for the First Boston investment firm...