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...Kerry Sieger were a stone age hunter-gatherer instead of a 21st century molecular biologist, chances are she would have the taut, trim body of her dreams. In college, however, Sieger underwent such a dramatic weight gain that, ever since, she has been a size 6 butterfly struggling to emerge from a chrysalis of size 20 clothes. Over the years, she has tried a succession of diets--the Scarsdale diet, the Nutri/System diet, the Michael Thurmond 6-Week Body Makeover diet, even the cabbage-soup diet--but the pounds she has repeatedly lost have relentlessly crept back...
...Sieger, 34, a research associate at a Houston-based biomedical research firm, has turned to the Atkins diet, a weight-loss program that seems to defy nutritional wisdom. Most health experts advise you to favor carbohydrates, found in everything from fruits to grains, while going easy on the protein and fat. On the Atkins diet, one is allowed to eat all the protein- and fat-drenched meat and butter one wants but must cut out cereal and bread. And if Sieger is puzzled by certain aspects of the diet--among other things, the initial phase is so low in fiber...
...With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas, Unmesh Kher/New York, Sean Scully/Los Angeles, Maggie Sieger and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago, Daniel Terdiman/San Francisco, with other bureaus
...Maggie Sieger...
...Renee's wedding in September," Lucy declared brightly. "I don't boogie--I'm too old. But I can polka." Lucy Shinn did not get to dance that last polka. Around 2:45 p.m. on Sept. 1, after a final kiss from her daughter, she died. --By Maggie Sieger...