Word: salads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans, it seems, have been mowing with abandon lately. A thesis about why so many have gained so much weight puts the blame squarely on America's huge, well-oiled, heavily advertised food industry. There may be salad bars at the local fast-food joints, but to find them customers have to run a gauntlet of starchy, beefy delights and breathe air perfumed with the scent of rendered lard. According to the Agriculture Department, the food and restaurant industries spend $36 billion a year on advertisements designed to entice hungry people to forgo fresh fruit and sliced vegetables for Ring...
...same book notes that foodborne spreading is rare. But Harvard, in completing its investigation of the epidemic, said the Norwalk virus spread via the salad bar in the Freshman Union...
Epidemiologists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), however, have still not determined what food originally transmitted the virus. Five foods from the salad bar are suspected...
Surveys pinpointed six foods as possible candidates for carrying the virus. Most of them were items in the salad...
Officials said their "best hypothesis" is that the Norwalk virus was spread via the salad bar in the Freshman Union. The overwhelming majority of the 225 students who reported illness had eaten in the Union during the 72 hours before the epidemic...