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...able to focus the laser of his art on this suicidal immolation. "Before I go to bed," he tells his Sunset Strip audience with a straight face and in the voice of aggrieved reason, "I like to have some milk and cookies. This night I had some low-fat milk, and I mixed it with some pasteurized, and I dipped the cookie in, and ..." Then comes the confession: "Ten million mothers freebase-and blow up!" And then, the memory of his favorite coke pipe, talking soothing self-destruction to him: "Me 'n' you're just gonna hang...
...diets are usually based on some nutritional fallacy. Of the currently popular regimes, the one that comes closest to being nutritionally acceptable is a low-fat diet recommended by Nathan Pritikin, somewhat similar to the one that people in underdeveloped countries follow of necessity. Pritikin, 66, founder of the Pritikin Longevity Center in Santa Monica, Calif, is a self-taught nutritionist. He forbids all fats, salt and sugar, oils, most processed foods and dairy products, and discourages the use of tobacco, caffeine, sugar and salt substitutes and even vitamins. Devotees eat mainly fresh fruits, vegetables and whole-grain breads, hoping...
...their diets. "Americans as a whole have reduced the amount of cholesterol they take in," he says. "But I would say our study probably underestimates the effect of diet. Most of our subjects were 'meat and potatoes' men. Practically no one had what could be called a low-fat diet...
Dressed in somber gray suits and minus 25 Ibs. (thanks to a low-fat diet), he stressed pet schemes: overhaul the fiscal and monetary system, rebuild the cities, renew the space program, balance the federal budget, protect the environment, phase out nuclear energy. Says Brown: "The Democratic Party is headed for defeat in November unless it comes up with the answers for the decline in our economy, the decline of our technology...
...LOVER'S DIET, devised by Dr. Abraham Friedman, at least sounds like fun. He urges the overweight to "reach for a mate instead of a plate," and exercise off their excess weight through intercourse. But unless they follow Friedman's low-fat and low-carbohydrate diet as well, they are unlikely to shed many pounds. A single act of intercourse, according to Friedman, burns an average of only 200 calories...