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...long, no one has figured out how nature does it, or whether the mechanism might be used to help fat people slim down. In 15 years of investigating this process, the University of London's Dr. Alan Kekwick and colleagues have found that people on a voluntary starvation regimen produce, somewhere in their bodies, a "fat mobilizing substance" (FMS). The substance speeds and eases the process whereby fat stored in the body can be withdrawn and utilized by the body as energy. Excess FMS is excreted in the urine...
...pounds didn't melt away, and at times she had to resort to fasting to hurry the process along. Yet today, 18 weeks and 80 lbs. lighter, Mrs. Hughes is down to size 16. The magic formula: medication, a bland diet consisting mostly of rice and a rigorous regimen of exercise...
...Regimen of Recapitulation. The patterning method was devised in the early 1950s by Physical Therapist Glenn J. Doman and Psychologist Carl Delacato. To apply the novel technique, they organized Philadelphia's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. The therapy is based on a highly disputed hypothesis. According to the Doman-Delacato theory, impairment of speech, vision and manual skills can be caused by the interruption of a child's normal progress from creeping to crawling to walking. Discarding standard evaluation systems and using an elaborate diagnostic scheme of their own, Doman and Delacato classify retarded children...
Protecting the Throne. This quiet regimen has given the King ample opportunity to reflect about what is happening at home. He knows that the longer he stays away the slimmer become his chances of regaining the throne. As things now stand, the ruling colonels are free to build a government to their own liking, without palace interference, yet with an "absent King" to protect their legal position as servants of the monarchy. The junta still professes loyalty to the monarchy, but it has a different kind of monarchy in mind. Its members are unlikely even to consider Constantine...
...personal level, his chronicles of daily life in prison, his regimen of self-education there, and the account of his romance with his white female lawyer Beverly Axelrod are both eloquent and moving. It is she, in fact, who strikes the most hopeful and perceptive note in this book. "Your hatred is large," she writes to him in a letter, "but not nearly so vast as you sometimes imagine; it can be used, but it can also be soothed and softened...