Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject, though, so worries city executives as their labor relations. Like workers everywhere, city employees are pressing for fat wage settlements-the range has lately been 8% to 10%-and often ignoring legal bars to striking...
...already gone into training to become Hollywood's newest sex symbol. "I've experimented with almost every drug known to man," she told Klemesrud. "But now I don't even smoke grass. It gives me the munchies, and I can't afford to get fat...
...A.M.A.'s concerns is the treatment offered by Simeons Weight Clinics, a chain of "fat clubs" with branches throughout the U.S. The A.M.A. notes that Simeons clients are placed on a diet of 500 calories a day for 42 to 60 days. They are also given injections of a substance called human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), which is extracted from the urine of pregnant women. The regimen's proponents claim that HCG helps patients stick to their diets and burn up fats better...
Most of the patients who go through this routine do lose weight. But a commentary in the A.M.A. Journal notes that there is no evidence that HCG has any specific effect on fat metabolism or plays any special role in weight reduction. Furthermore, too much HCG may cause such unpleasant side effects as headache, restlessness and depression...
...other fat fad to incur the displeasure of the A.M.A. is "staplepuncture," which is based on the theory - so far unconfirmed - that there are "obesity nerve endings" in the ear. Doctors who practice the art place surgical staples in their patients' ears and instruct them to wiggle the metal clips with their fingers whenever they feel like cheating on the 400-calorie-per-day diet that accompanies the treatment...