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...swimmers do not continue to swim competitively forever. The exhausting regimen, which involves swimming 10,000-15,000 yards a day is rigorous for anyone. So after training year-round for 11 of her 21 years, Walsh retired from this taxing routine...
CATHERINE MACKIN, 38, covers Capitol Hill for NBC all week and then flies to New York to anchor the Sunday night news, which she took over last summer. It is a demanding regimen, but it does not bother Mackin: "People who do what we do are fairly driven people. I'm a compulsive worker." Mackin worked her way from,her home-town Baltimore News American to become in 1972 the first woman network television floor reporter at a national political convention. Though some viewers find her taut and aloof on-camera, off-camera acquaintances insist she is quite...
...touring schedule keeps her from worrying too much. It also keeps her away from New York two weeks out of three, and parted from Daily News Columnist Pete Hamill, 41, the man in her life for the past five years. While at home she stays trim with a regimen of exercise and yoga and a low-sugar diet. On the road her style is more inner-city Holiday Inn than posh hotel. "They're like motels without cars-you can go down the hall and get a bucket of ice," she figures. "It's also...
Schwarzenegger, of course, thinks bodybuilding is " the greatest sport in the world" and the participants deserve credit for their efforts. Their daily regimen involves complete devotion to excruciatingly painful workouts and strict high-protein diets--some bodybuilders eat 40 egg-whites a day. Builders are judged on their size, shape and body symmetry. But despite Mike Marvel's claims, they are deforming their body with no other end in sight besides posing. The film never explores the real reason for this distorted vanity, preferring to just glorify...
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...