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According to Henry Jordan and Leonard Levitz, co-founders of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital Diet Clinic, most popular diets are only temporarily effective in changing one's pattern of eating. The menu may turn out to be less important than how and where one eats. Outpatients at the Jordan-Levitz diet clinic can have peanut butter sandwiches or lemon meringue pie if they like, but for 20 weeks they must keep a food-intake chart, a sort of eater's digest of the circumstances of each meal or snack...
Almost Hysterical. Until she began keeping charts for the Jordan-Levitz clinic, Esther Rich, a 29-year-old Philadelphia housewife, never realized that she ate a little something, usually candy, every two hours. As a remedy, Levitz suggested that she stretch the time between snacks little by little. "The first time I tried it I was almost hysterical," Rich confesses. "I was only able to wait 20 minutes. The second time I distracted myself by calling someone on the telephone." After-dinner snacking in the kitchen was a particular problem. Now Rich washes her dinner dishes in the morning...
...past 18 months the clinic's 56 patients have shed an average of 24 lbs. each. For their 20 hour-and-a-half sessions, at which they discuss their eating habits, patients pay a hefty fee of $500, no doubt part of the reason the clinic has had only five dropouts. Despite the dues (which go to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital for obesity research), Jordan and Levitz are booked solid until September and are now planning to train successful patients as lay consultants...
...Drug Administration for widespread application. Thus use of the substance is restricted to certain medical centers that are still investigating its efficacy and safety. But those who have used chymopapain for slipped discs have uniformly reported good results. For example, at Massachusetts General Hospital, which recently opened a clinic to treat back problems, Drs. James Huddleston and Robert Boyd have injected chymopapain into 250 slipped-disc sufferers over the past 2% years. In three-fourths of the cases, they report, both the rupture and the pain were relieved...
...pink snake in her plant. Dunlop, incredulous, asked how long it was, three feet, two, one? It turned out to be an inchworm. Another New York housewife recently expended the last half-gallon of gas in the family car to rush her ailing plant to the nearest cactus clinic. "It's stopped growing," she cried, "and the leaves keep falling off. I've tried everything, from Mozart to peat moss. What am I doing wrong'" Replied the resident physician: "Nothing, madam, it's a plastic plant...