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...bottle of pills that the Food and Drug Administration has just banned because of inadequate knowledge of side effects. What do you do? Last week the answer from many American dieters hooked on the latest get-thin-quick scheme was to rush out and buy lots more bottles of starch blockers before they vanish from health and drugstore shelves...
Such difficulties are not surprising. "These pills are made from kidney-bean extract," explains Dr. Victor Herbert, chief of the hematology and nutrition laboratory at the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York. "There is a chemical in beans that reduces the speed of starch digestion. If you don't digest the starch, then it goes down into your colon, where bacteria ferment and make gas out of it. That gas can give you nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea, as well as making you socially unacceptable...
...worth of the new product at up to $10.95 for a bottle of 30, and many come back for more because they do lose weight. Melva Williams, president of Melva Natural Products, a health-food wholesaler in Worth, III, says she has lost 10 Ibs. with the help of starch blockers, without getting sick and without reducing her caloric intake. "It started working with me almost immediately," she claims. "Each tablet inhibits the digestion of 150 grams of starch, which equals 600 calories. I'm very satisfied with meals, and I don't feel hungry in between...
...carry on, they face no penalties other than those their colons may mete out to them. While no suspicion of permanent damage has been raised, there is little likelihood of permanent weight loss either: eating habits are not changed and indeed may get worse for those who figure the starch blocker will handle that extra slice of pizza. Beila Simon Kunis, a dietitian in Chicago, opposes the pills, but concedes that occasionally, "I will say 'O.K., try it.' Some people are very sensitive to it, and some are not. We're all looking for the easy...
...watt bulb, presumably at night. His daily regimen included exercising as best he could inside the tent, occasionally reading (George Orwell's 1984, clippings from TIME and various newspapers about his abduction), playing solitaire and napping. He was regularly fed "well-balanced" meals (meat, green vegetable, sometimes a starch) by his captors, who always wore ski masks in his presence. "At no time," Dozier said, "did I see anyone with his or her face uncovered...