Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month, and they never "need no training up," so accustomed are they to one another's rhythms. "Say it loud and draw a crowd!" Bud Spires hollered as Jack Owens wailed, "You're tryin' to quit me now,/ But you don't know how." It began raining, and fat drops played the roof while the two friends played on: "Give me yoh money, baby gal,/ Let me use it for myself." Whiskey pints circled round and round and round the porch. In this fashion, the afternoon slid away, as did most necessary motor skills...
Eating Problems Outreach (EPO) handles anonymous calls from students suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia and other eating disorders. Those with anorexia, which has been recognized since the Middle Ages, are preoccupied with dieting and lose at least 25 percent of their original body weight yet still see themselves as fat. Bulimia, only recently recognized as a disorder and more difficult to detect, involves a cycle of binging and self-induced purging...
...celebration. A pair of the elite tickets goes for $350 but $300 of that is tax-deductible. Glimp says that the special tickets were offered to those who did a lot of work for the Harvard Alumni Association and Admissions Office, and were not designed to butter up potential fat-cat donors...
Welcome to the U.S. spa, 1980s style. Only a decade ago, the spa's hallmark was pampering and passivity. Fat farms, so they were called, catered to well- fed, well-spread Mrs. Plushbottoms. No longer. Most of today's spas are one- stop fitness shops, sweat-soaked emporiums where guests are run ragged during the day, fed near starvation rations at lunch and dinner, and then hectored on proper nutrition, stress reduction and healthy habits. Coddling facials, pedicures and massages serve as soothing, but temporary respites. "If you want to expose yourself to new things in health and fitness, diet...
...Guests pay as little as $365 for five days and bring their own sheets and towels. "It's not primitive. It's rustic," declares Co-Founder Jill Adzia. "Primitive is sleeping in the woods without any indoor plumbing." California's spas are leaders in changing the image of fat farm to fitness | farm, and three in that state demonstrate the similarities and diversities: The Golden Door, which has been in business for 25 years, specializes in judicious cosseting of its 40 guests. Exquisite rock gardens, waterfalls and a pond with lazily swimming pink, black and red koi decorate the landscape...