Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Satisfied that both diet and drugs had already been tried, Dr. Troncelliti decided on heroic measures. He prescribed a jejuno-colostomy (short-circuiting most of the small bowel), an operation devised in 1912 for patients suffering from incurable metabolic defects. Because the body absorbs most of its fats through the wall of the lower small bowel, by drastically shortening that absorbing wall the surgeon hoped to limit his patient's assimilation of fat calories...
...feet of the small bowel as a nonfunctioning blind loop. When the man recovered from the operation, he continued to overeat, but the food digested in his stomach and duodenum passed more directly into his colon. He absorbed enough protein and starch to keep him alive but not enough fat to maintain his weight...
Born. To Jayne Mansfield, 32, full-time exhibitionist, sometime movie actress (the upcoming Fat Spy), and Matt Cimber, 29, her third husband and manager: her fifth child, their first, a son; in Hollywood...
...stones" range in size from a grain of sand to a marble. They are made up of cholesterol, bile acids and other digestive substances, and when they interfere with the flow of fat-digesting bile to the duodenum (see diagram), they may cause sharp and colicky pain, especially after a heavy, fatty meal. This is what happened to President Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch early last month...
...matter of minutes on an assembly-line basis for a fee ranging from $5 to $25. And many parents give their consent for an operation only because they know that if a doctor does not do it, some school chum is ready and willing. All she needs is a fat sewing needle, a couple of ice cubes (for numbing the lobe), and some thick white thread to keep the breach open...