Word: overweightness
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College admissions departments discriminate against overweight applicants, Jean Mayer, president of Tufts University, told a conference of Tufts alumni this weekend...
...meeting. Said Dr. Donnell Etzwiler of Minneapolis, head of the Diabetes Association: "Taking away low-calorie sweeteners may well be a more serious health threat than this cancer 'threat.'" Diabetics are not the only ones who may be hurt by the ban. Millions of other Americans are overweight, a condition that can lead to such difficulties as hypertension and cardiovascular disease; without diet foods, their number is likely to swell...
...some cases sudden death. Nor is it easily treatable. Conventional sleeping pills can actually worsen the problem by increasing the breathing difficulty. Removing the tonsils and adenoids to make a larger breathing passage seems to work only in children. Shedding weight makes little difference. Jokes the still overweight Siegel: "I've lost 3,000 pounds over the years...
LEVAR ("BEEBE") MYLER, 53, the only other member of the Mormon Mafia on Summa Corp.'s board of directors. A former Air Force mechanic and picture-frame maker, Myler signed on in 1950 as a chauffeur for Actress Jean Peters, Hughes' second wife. Overweight, short-tempered and ailing (gout, heart trouble), he was standoffish and kept mostly to himself...
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...