Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girlfriend of three years, Playboy Model Carrie Leigh, 22. Hefner, who spends his days working on an autobiography (with Yeager Co-Author Leo Janos), suffered a mild stroke 13 months ago, and he is taking care of himself a little more now. He has switched from Pepsi to Diet Pepsi, stashed away his once omnipresent pipes and uses an exercycle. "Not my style in the old days," Hef admits. But the fledgling senior citizen can tell the difference: "I feel and look several years younger." Add another thought to the Playboy Philosophy: Not getting older, just getting better...
...therapy she was back to her normal weight. At Harvard, she stopped going to therapy, but she still worries about eating and her weight. Sometimes she plays with her food without eating; other times she indulges in sweets and then is depressed for days because she went off her diet...
...spring of her freshman year at Harvard, Jenny realized that she had gained 10 pounds over the winter and decided that she needed to go on a diet. She shed the 10 pounds without much effort, but with the summer ahead and the prospect of seeing her old high school friends, she became convinced that she needed to lose even more weight...
...constantly shifting calorie levels, Katahn explains, ease eater boredom and, more important, prevent the body from significantly slowing the rate at which it burns calories, the stumbling block in most diets. Other diet experts endorse the tactic but think losing three or four pounds a week is excessive. Says Dr. George Bray of the University of Southern California: "That's not a sustainable rate of healthy weight loss." Everyone applauds the diet's psychological appeal, however. Declares Katahn: "It motivates us to be as close to perfect as we can for three weeks." Agrees Housewife Pam Kennedy, who has shed...
...Kroger supermarket chain eagerly boosted the effort; it offered to distribute the brochure and agreed to weigh out dieters as well as their vegetables. Some 12,000 hopeful pound shuckers herded through the chain's groceries during the first weekend. Material on the rotation diet may become available soon to supermarkets throughout the country. The plan restricts women to 600 calories for each of the first three days, 900 during the next four, then 1,200 over the following seven. The third week repeats the first. (Men get an additional 600 calories daily.) To soothe hunger pangs, dieters can munch...