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...precise accounts of obesity patients' family history, exact data on the body's normal food intake (some people's systems require more and different foods than others). ¶ When should weight be brought under some kind of control? Dr. Ercel Eppright, Iowa State's top nutritionist, suggested that weight control should begin during childhood. Thanks to TV and the automobile, children are getting less exercise, spending playtime indoors gobbling high-calorie snacks and soda pop. ¶ Overweight is spreading more rapidly among white men and less rapidly among white women, reported the U.S. Public Health Service...
Exercise, moderate but consistent, is an excellent method to use up excess calories, the nutritionist said. In the long run, however, he emphasized, the best way to remain normally healthy is to cut down on eating in order not to become dangerously...
...Harvard nutritionist, Dr. Frederick J. Stare, has translated the latest scientific findings into a set of revised rules for sensible dieting...
Says Eugene Segal, part-time correspondent in Cleveland: "A reporter's illusion that he is a pro, doing a kind of work that requires long practice and highly specialized skill, is deflated when his wife fills in for him during his busy periods. Mine was a chemist and nutritionist. Now she raises children, runs a big household, designs clothes, manages money like a corporation comptroller, and organizes recreational activities at a junior high school ... I keep finding out that there's no end to that woman's resourcefulness when I call on her to serve...
Long the top nutritionist in New York City's Health Department, Dr. Jolliffe believes that people may overeat for one of three main reasons: 1) simple habit,which may be the result of growing up with obese, gluttonous parents; 2) on purpose, as when a child tucks away gobs of food because then his nagging mother stops nagging; 3) psychosomatic urges, to compensate for some social, financial or sexual problem. The second and third causes eventually harden into habits...