Can you guess what a smiley is? No, the other smiley. Or how about tarantula juice? You could, of course, happen upon someone with a muffin top drinking inferior whisky, or you could look these terms up in the new Green’s Dictionary of Slang...
eatertainment n.— «In our society, eating, especially eating “fun” foods that are high in fats, salt, and sugar, is one of the cheapest (at least in immediate costs) forms of recreation. They referred to it as...
DNA diet n.— «Nutrigenomics is the practice of genetically modifying foods to increase the value of nutrition. It has been cleverly referred to as the DNA diet and is a new attempt at determining how the foods that we eat are transformed...
lifestyle disease n.— «Such abundance has helped lay the foundation for coronary artery disease, stroke, high blood pressure, arthritis, adult-onset diabetes, obesity and several kinds of cancer. These diseases, once called degenerative...
nature deficit disorder n.— «The increased activism has been partly inspired by a best-selling book, “Last Child in the Woods,” and its author, Richard Louv. Coining the term “nature deficit disorder,” Louv has...
cardiodiabesity n.— «Smith says a deadly troika of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity—or cardiodiabesity—as he calls it, is killing one Australian every few minutes.» —“Life in a slower lane” The...