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Schwartz shamelessly takes ideas from friends' experiences. Says the writer: "It's easier to find new friends "than new columns." She also digs a working woman's elbow into dippy socialites and celebrity puritans like Diet Doctor Nathan Pritikin, whom she took to a Dallas taco joint. While he showed her how to eat healthily even there, she thought ravenously of "guilty nachos." Discovering Orlando, Fla., Schwartz announced, "Forget singles bars, forget computer matchmaking, forget gourmet dating clubs. If you want to meet a man, head straight for Disney World . . . I was there last week...
Dieting poses a whole set of different hazards, especially the quickie weight-losing schemes that separate U.S. dieters from a few pounds each year. Among the current In diets are the Pritikin, the Atkins and the Beverly Hills Diet. Nutrition experts insist that many fad diets are not really diets at all but bizarre and temporary ways of depriving the subject of adequate nutrition...
...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...
...Pritikin Permanent Weight-Loss Manual, Pritikin...
Coming into the heavy weight-loss championship, the two opponents, both bestselling diet authors, were lean and mean. When the bell rang for their appearance on NBC's late-night Tomorrow show, Dr. Robert Atkins (Dr. Atkins' Diet Book) and Nathan Pritikin (The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise) spattered like fast-frying bacon. In the crossfire of insults and accusations, refereed by Tomorrow Co-Host Tom Snyder, 45, Pritikin, who advocates a low-cholesterol, high-exercise program, asserted that Atkins' high-fat, high-protein diet increased the chances of heart disease and certain cancers. After...