Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Stillman and Baker...
...television's, star of the week, though, was Anchorman Walter Cronkite. It was sweet vindication. In 1964, when the CBS news rating fell off, the panic-stricken network jettisoned him between conventions. This year, keeping on a "low-residue diet, a trick I learned from the astronauts," and forsaking his pipe to keep his throat moist, Cronkite stayed on top of the story all week. He constantly re-queried his field men when he thought they did not question pungently enough. He got off his share of quips. He correctly forecast, for example, that the nominating speech for Senator...
...Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Stillman and Baker...
After laborious FMS extraction, the Kekwick team finally collected enough to try on six patients at Middlesex Hospital. Put on a diet of 1,500 calories per day, the patients received injections every other day. Half of the time they got FMS; the rest of the time they got salt solution. In the salt periods they lost only an average of 81 grams (less than 3 oz.) per day, while on FMS they lost 231 grams or just over half a pound...
...method shows promise as the most natural way to reduce while on a moderately low-calorie diet. One problem, in proving its value, is going to be getting enough FMS. Another is that effectiveness may wear off after repeated doses; so how long treatment can be maintained is still in doubt...