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BOTTOM LINE The diet plan is essentially low-calorie and highprotein. Much of Dr. Phil's advice is sound, if over-simplified. But the supplements he promotes are of unproved effectiveness, and not all over-weight people eat emotionally...
...occur a few hours after meals: dizziness, weakness, tremors, sweating, even heart palpitations. Worried that they might have that "in" condition, hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), the patients consult their physicians. More often than not, after a test or two, the doctors agree with the diagnosis and prescribe a restrictive, highprotein, low-carbohydrate diet with frequent feedings. Indeed, hypoglycemia has reached epidemic proportions. Now some doctors are raising warning flags. They insist that the malady is largely illusory...
...diet book was published in January 1979. It quickly caught the fancy of weight-conscious Americans, selling nearly 3 million copies and grossing more than $11 million. The book promised dieters that they would lose an average of a pound a day by adhering to Tarnower's highprotein, low-carbohydrate regime...
Died. Dr. Irwin M. Stillman, 79, co-author of The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet (1967) and other bestselling weight-control guides, whose drastic prescription for obesity-quick shedding of excess pounds through an extreme highprotein, low-carbohydrate regimen-brought him a wide following as well as much criticism from more conventional nutrition experts; of a heart attack; in North Miami...
...Emanuel Rubin and Charles Lieber selected baboons for their study because the primates live as long as 15 years, far longer than most other laboratory animals, and have livers that are similar to man's. The researchers put 26 baboons on highprotein, high-vitamin diets, but for 13 of the animals substituted ethanol, or grain alcohol, for much of the carbohydrate portion of the dietary requirements. The alcohol provided the animals with fully half their caloric intake...