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Coming into the heavy weight-loss championship, the two opponents, both bestselling diet authors, were lean and mean. When the bell rang for their appearance on NBC's late-night Tomorrow show, Dr. Robert Atkins (Dr. Atkins' Diet Book) and Nathan Pritikin (The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise) spattered like fast-frying bacon. In the crossfire of insults and accusations, refereed by Tomorrow Co-Host Tom Snyder, 45, Pritikin, who advocates a low-cholesterol, high-exercise program, asserted that Atkins' high-fat, high-protein diet increased the chances of heart disease and certain cancers. After...
...inordinate number of customers appear to be feasting-or fasting, as the case may be-on the same simply prepared dish. Fish if it happens to be Monday night, beef on Tuesday, lamb if Wednesday. Peculiar? Not to these diet devotees. They are merely following the latest popular weight-loss regimen: the Scarsdale Diet...
Blackburn and three other researchers began the experiments on rats this fall following the deaths of 12 persons using the liquid protein weight-loss diet. Blackburn said yesterday he believes potassium deficiencies were partly or wholly responsible for the deaths...
...describes it as a weight-loss diet whose user can shed up to 5 lbs. a week. Guérard is building on the culinary ideology of la nouvelle cuisine, which began to transform grande cuisine some ten years ago. The high priest of the new way was Paul Bocuse, who brought to French cooking a new emphasis on freshness and simplicity (TIME, April 9, 1973)-and in 1975 received the Legion of Honor from President Giscard d'Estaing. The orgiastic bouffe-meals that would consume long hours of relentless, if not hoggish stuffing of the gullet...
...sales of diet books and enrollment in weight-loss programs are any indication, most of the more than 70 million Americans who are overweight are trying to slim down. But, the American Medical Association warns, weight-watchers should reduce with care. According to the A.M.A., two currently popular quick-loss plans offer more risks than lasting rewards...