Word: nutritionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second possibility is that with the retirement of Dining Services Director Michael P. Berry last year, the new guard has revamped the menu and included campus-wide mind control by adding grade-A, nutritionist-approved neuromodulators to the diet. Rumor has it that the "savory-baked tofu" never tasted better. However, this could never be pulled off, for like the "fresh-squeezed" taste of the Vitality juice or "authentic curry" that we are served, imitation or generic thought control substances are never on par with the genuine article...
...Wurtman was convinced that obesity must to some degree have a physiological basis. He had been doing research on the relationship between serotonin and appetite. Carbohydrates in the blood can help produce elevated levels of serotonin in the brain; Wurtman and his wife Judy, a nutritionist, theorized that eating high-carbohydrate food might be an unconscious attempt to elevate mood by giving the brain extra jolts of serotonin. "We reasoned," says Wurtman, "that people were using these foods as drugs." And because the best-tasting high-carbohydrate foods--ice cream, French fries, potato chips--are high in fat, the calories...
...part of her participation in the dietary trial, the slender D'Alessandro has attended regular private and group sessions with a nutritionist for the past year, discussing eating habits and sampling low-fat dishes...
...pipeline for osteoporosis. Many of the "alternative" practitioners around the country are suggesting that women seek estrogen from dietary sources. In Los Angeles and Boston, Mexican yams have become all the rage among women of a certain age. Yams contain a weak form of estrogen. San Francisco nutritionist Linda Ojeda, author of Menopause Without Medicine, advocates soybeans, which contain a natural progesterone as well as estrogen. The low rate of menopausal complaints among Japanese women may be due in part to their consumption of tofu, she suggests. To relieve hot flashes, Ojeda recommends 6Êoz. of tofu four times...
...school nutritionist compete against BigFoot pizzas and Super- Size fries? The $50,000 the U.S. government allots each state annually to teach kids to eat right is lost next to the billions spent designing food and packaging that will ring the kids' Pavlovian bells. A telling statistic: Kellogg's in 1993 spent $32 million advertising a single product: Frosted Flakes. By comparison, last year the produce industry spent $55 million on an educational program to promote its entire product line, from asparagus to zucchini...