Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that something was about to happen. On Dec. 26 he was moved, without explanation, to the camp hospital, where he was given vitamin injections and medicine for his heart. Once before, in 1984, he was transferred to the same hospital, provided with proper medical treatment, strengthened with a good diet, and then taken to visit his mother and brother. Again this time, as he gained weight from a diet that included meat and even butter, he assumed that he was being fattened up for another visit...
Another friend talks: Freshman year in high school, I decided to start losing weight. I wanted to have the best rear end in school. People were always talking about the grapefruit diet, the Beverly Hills diet, the water and bread diet; smoking and drinking coffee so they wouldn't want...
...suffering from severe heart disease for most of his adult life. His condition was due largely to a genetic disorder that afflicts 1 in 500 Americans, causing abnormally high levels of cholesterol to accumulate in the blood and ultimately clog the arteries. In Lewis' case, the strictest low-fat diet and all the drugs that medicine could muster had failed to control the problem. By the time he was 47, his arteries were so blocked--a condition known as atherosclerosis--that he required quadruple-bypass surgery. Nine years later a double-bypass was performed. But in both instances the vessels...
Reversing atherosclerosis, whether genetically or otherwise induced, has long been one of the unattainable dreams of physicians. Numerous studies have shown that the buildup of plaque in the arteries can be halted by diet, drugs and exercise aimed at controlling cholesterol levels. But a few tantalizing studies have suggested that if levels are reduced drastically enough, plaque may actually begin to melt away. Only in the past few years have doctors had the tools to achieve such reductions. LDL-pheresis is one example, while new experimental drugs like Mevinolin, particularly when combined with existing drugs, also hold great promise. "What...
...severest genetic cases, like Yuko's, would probably require lifelong treatment, says Rogosin's Dr. Bruce Gordon, but with most patients "the goal is to give a course of therapy from six months to two years, produce a beneficial effect and then hopefully keep the patient stable with diet and drugs...