Word: groote
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...useful adjunct to the treatment of obesity, but, as with any other diet, regular medical supervision is essential." Their findings appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and caused only the faintest ripple among reducing authorities. But a free-lance writer and professional gourmet named Roy de Groot, serving as a night telephone operator at the institute, had been one of the out-clinic patients. He wrote a hopped-up account (published in Look magazine) of the diet's wonders and how it had taken 45 Ibs. off his roly-poly...
...committee, headed by Dud De-Groot of New Mexico University and including former Harvard coach Dick Harlow, drafted the plan at the coaches' annual meeting last January. The draft has been approved by the Association's board of trustees, and will go up for the full membership in January...