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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hillier's remarkable weight loss is the result not of some new dieting fad but of the oldest, surest and quickest way to get rid of excess fat: fasting. Along with others afflicted with severe obesity, he had enrolled in a pioneering fasting clinic at Cleveland's Mount Sinai Hospital. Except for a powdery mix of mainly alanine (an amino acid) and glucose that is taken with water or diet drinks, patients at the clinic eat nothing whatsoever for weeks and months at a time, starving off their pounds...
Founded in 1971 by Mount Sinai's chief of medicine, Dr. Victor Vertes, the fasting clinic accepts only people who are at least 50 lbs. overweight and threatened by such ailments as diabetes, kidney problems, hypertension and heart disease. Under the regimen devised by Vertes and his colleague, Dr. Saul M. Genuth, patients who are 100 lbs. overweight or more are kept in the hospital for the first week while their reactions to the fast are observed. Then once a week they return with the others to be weighed, interviewed by the staff-which looks for any possibly harmful...
...There is nothing easy about watching this movie, nothing very happy. Sometimes it is hollow and sometimes it is over-intellectualized in an affected way. But Kubrick, who knows how to make a movie and thinks about it hard, does not let details float wrong. He knows how to mount an assault, and he knows how to do it without taking facile roads. He has been accused, as systematically as he works, of the inability to interiorize, and of treating people like chessmen, even checkers. Paths of Glory serves as an ample refutation to that. He has also been accused...
...regressive tax structure by approving a graduated state income tax. The failure of the graduated income tax is ironic because most of those who voted against it would have had their taxes reduced under the plan. The proponents of the graduated tax, if they are to be successful, must mount a broader campaign to clearly inform the voters of the effects of the graduated...
...rising star, had invested his considerable zest in the discipline needed to hone his talents. Only three points separated them-Lauda leading-in the contest for the World Driving Championship when they came to the final race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix. At the foot of Mount Fuji, the matter was decided, not on the track but in the minds of the two drivers. James Hunt took on the risk of racing through rain into fog-shrouded turns. Niki Lauda could not accept the dangers. Hunt finished the race in third place, scoring four points and claiming...