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...patients," recalls a Mexican physician in Nuevo Laredo. "Some doctors would see as many as 100 patients on a weekend. They would call them in five at a time and sometimes dispense the pills themselves." The Mexican government has since taken steps to end abuses in the selling of weight-loss medication...
...United, the piano maker turned insurance giant. After expanding too boldly into financial services, the company in September filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. California toymaker Mattel was zapped by the collapse of the video-game craze, and its stock fell sharply. Pennsylvania-based Nutri/System, which operates a chain of weight-loss centers, fell from grace when earnings slumped after it acquired an executive job placement service and a cosmetics firm. Anacomp, an Indianapolis data processor, had problems with some software products, and its stock tumbled. The drop in the share price of California...
...full resources of a hospital. As a result, costs to the patient can be cut by as much as 50%. In Beverly, Mass., Beverly Hospital has established satellite facilities on its grounds, including a delivery center for mothers who prefer the more intimate setting and a nutrition and weight-loss clinic...
Legions of non-sweaters have also grown richer. Nutri/System Inc. of Melrose Park, Pa., earned $44,000 in 1976. By this year earnings had jumped to $9 million on the 408 company-owned or franchised weight-loss centers in 45 states. Says Investment Banker Michael Taylor, who watches Nutri/System carefully: "It's a sybarite's delight, the Me generation personified...
...Pritikin Permanent Weight-Loss Manual, Pritikin