Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Founded in 1971 by Mount Sinai's chief of medicine, Dr. Victor Vertes, the fasting clinic accepts only people who are at least 50 lbs. overweight and threatened by such ailments as diabetes, kidney problems, hypertension and heart disease. Under the regimen devised by Vertes and his colleague, Dr. Saul M. Genuth, patients who are 100 lbs. overweight or more are kept in the hospital for the first week while their reactions to the fast are observed. Then once a week they return with the others to be weighed, interviewed by the staff-which looks for any possibly harmful...
This is the third year that Harvard students have participated in the Oxfam fast, Dones said. Only 1400 students were involved last year...
...fast wasn't really that hard to organize," Dones said. "We had quite a few interested volunteers come in to help us sign students...
...Harvard Hunger Action Group organized the Oxfam fast at Harvard, Dones said, because it wanted to do something about world hunger problems and Oxfam was the most efficient group to work with...
...fast by Harvard students was part of a nationwide effort to increase concern for the problem of world hunger and raise funds for Oxfam, Kendall Dudley, national Oxfam fast organizer, said yesterday...