Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also being used by psychologists to help people lose weight, stop smoking and overcome phobias like the fear of flying. If subliminals were put on TV, explains Becker, they could be directed specifically at such killers as obesity, drugs and bad driving. Says he: "We could eliminate weight problems in one generation, reduce auto Insurance...
...many doctors are unconvinced by the blitz. The Medical Letter, a highly regarded bulletin for physicians, notes that in one published study of 66 obese patients, the greatest weight loss was achieved not by anyone on PPA but by someone who had been given a placebo. Says Letter Consulting Editor Dr. Martin Rizack: "If somebody really wants to lose weight, you can give them almost anything and probably get an effect...
Most specialists still feel that the real answer to shedding pounds is changing lifestyles. Says Dr. Victor Vertes, director of the weight loss clinic at Cleveland's Mt. Sinai Hospital: "These drugs are not going to burn calories. You've got to curb your caloric intake. And for long-term weight control, they're completely useless. You can't take them for the rest of your life...
...effort to build up his strength and stamina. Says he: "There are no great players who are not strong." The workouts added so much muscle to his 6-ft. 1-in., 190-lb. frame that teammates blinked when he showed up for spring training. Lynn feels his weight-training program will also keep him from tiring during the late season, as he has done for the past few years...
...this poignant tale is serviceable. He knows the early days of Hollywood; his previous book Some Time in the Sun was a good account of how writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West functioned at the dream factory. Yet too many sentences creep along under the crustacean weight of adjectives: "The staggering impact of the immense success of these shows on the entire entertainment world . . ." Worse, Dardis too often strains after bogus significance: "Like Ernest Hemingway, who also spent childhood summers on a lake in Michigan, Buster early became an extremely proficient duck hunter." Such blemishes...