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...hired for their heft, last week hopped on scales to show what a week's competitive dieting had done for them. In blatant co-operation to teach rumpy Chicagoans how to reduce were Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen. president of Chicago's Board of Health. Dr. William I. Fishbein, able young brother of the American Medical Association's Dr. Morris Fishbein. and William Randolph Hearst. Mr. Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, which hired the women because their chunky thighs and beefy arms would photograph well, instigated and made great ado over bananas...
...bananas and a glass of skimmed milk was all the nourishment that Alice Joy received at any meal. Drs. Bundesen and Fishbein also allowed her some coffee and tea (without sugar or cream) and large quantities of water. A week of that diet lost her 4½ lb., brought her down to 135¾ lb., made her whimper: "I'm hungry. And I'm tired. I couldn't lick a kitten...
...calories per day. After a week she had reduced 2⅜ lb. to 142⅜ lb. The three expect to continue their "diet derby" until the month's end. But they are not altogether happy about the springtime sideshow they are providing for Chicago. Dr. Fishbein gave a lugubrious interview about their glands. Dr. Bundesen was making them believe themselves larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight has 25 mi. of extra blood vessels." Result...
...free press, of which we have heard so much of late, was denied, and the seeds of a deadly disease were sown among innocent victims of a cowardly and conniving press and commercial greed. . . . C. E. LOWRY Editor The Gibson Courier Gibson City, Ill. According to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal, travelers need have no more fear of visiting Chicago than any other large city. The occurrence of amebic dysentery has fallen to two or three cases a week-a normal condition following an outbreak- and doubtless will be reduced further. Last cases reported were...
...Morris Fishbein, encyclopedic A. M. A. editor, with a sly twinkle: "The situation opens tremendous possibilities for speculation...