Word: overweightness
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Change of Style. Before that first heart attack, Johnson abused his body. He smoked two to three packs of cigarettes a day, took little exercise and ate too much fat and sweets. At about 220 Ibs., he was roughly 30 Ibs. overweight. His initial seizure, said Johnson, was "about as bad as a man can have and still live...
...people who are overweight and want to reduce, a lot of talk about eating only evades the issue. Exercise is the solution to obesity. See that jogger running round the lake, America? He knows. Look at him and eat your heart...
Health, however, is not the only concern of food-conscious Americans. Many, aware that to be overweight is to be unattractive, are trying to diet their way to slimness. Broadly speaking, they have two alternatives: they can follow regimens that promise rapid weight loss through the elimination of almost all carbohydrates, or they can try a more sensible system of eating that restricts quantity rather than variety and pares off pounds more slowly...
...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...
...this reason, many doctors eschew eccentric diets and insist that their patients learn instead to eat differently for the rest of their lives. Dr. Robert Atkins, a modishly dressed Manhattan physician who operates out of a plush East Side office, believes that overweight is the result of the body's inability to metabolize carbohydrates properly. He allows his patients such dietary don'ts as mayonnaise, heavy cream, butter, steaks and lobster, but limits them to a maximum of 40 grams of carbohydrates daily. Dr. Charles Roland of the Mayo Clinic says that "despite Atkins' sweeping generalizations...