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...casual dieter, who risks poor health by losing muscle tissue. "These programs are definitely not for a patient who has 20 lbs. to lose and wants to get into a bikini," says Jim Parsons, Optifast's director. Nor are they for the do-it- yourselfer. "If you use an over-the-counter formula product as your sole source of nutrition, it's like playing Russian roulette," says Joan Horbiak, spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. Patients in liquid-diet programs occasionally suffer temporary side effects, such as fatigue, constipation, dizziness and hair loss...
...stems from the more than a dozen deaths caused by such regimens a decade ago. At that time, the unsupervised diets contained only 300 calories a day and were made of nutritionally deficient hydrolyzed gelatin. Since then, calorie levels have been raised and the products improved. "Now programs invariably use high-quality protein," says Victor Frattali, a nutritionist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
Reagan has rarely been more genial, confident of what he was saying and uninformative than in this half-hour, which nudged aside 30 minutes of Bill Cosby on NBC, an intrusion safe only for a retiring politician. Reagan never liked the press conference, but he learned to use it. Bush most likely will go to smaller groups, more frequent encounters on subjects of the day -- precisely what panels of journalists have recommended in order to get away from Gong Show news...
...eighth- graders because it gives her more time to shape their record. In past summers she has sent one student to Greece to build roads, another to Hawaii to teach language to dolphins. "It makes them more interesting to the college," she says. "They can show how they use their time beneficially...
...addition, the growing use of high-priced private coaches and special prep courses may put less affluent applicants at a disadvantage. "It is certainly unfair to the poor," admits a mother who paid $1,000 for an outside counselor. "But without it, my daughter's chances at Brown and Stanford wouldn't be nearly as good. It was necessary...