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Battalion/Page 12 October 21,1 ons features rine ?rates are, "hard-pres» >[ Draper on trust I lines from a group tlinl ast three years has pr(«f irhty of trust.” e moderates said er and Smith belongr n in the denomk •d hy Houston Judge Paul Presslnj >er of the First h of Houston. Thatj tid it will use denon machinery to eliminfl «i/ns permanent fat loss arics and agendes, ssler’s group is gem ered responsible for politicking that has ed and bitterly din itional meetings off •rn Baptist Conventii st ses eral years, lerates maintain, hoKj t unless the convention :icized the future dissension, distrust \ division. Fasting works: doctor rnts Inited Press International COTTSDALE, Ariz. — Dr. laid Robertson says the best 'for fat people to lose weight j slarve. Btedding weight, he says, is easv part of his weight-loss gram. The hard part is help- his patients keep the pounds • 1 “The body perceives it’s | "I \ n g starved, then allows fat 111 v./ VA red to become available for bili/ation,” Robertson said, ■obertson, who uses a ■l-loss program offered in I he's received cslinulllinics across the country, as $10,500 to fits 40 percent of patients on ■•ograni are able to keep e Dales are liglninf irlveight off indefinitely, iv people havesugge Sound familiar? ' way to lickcitvhalli .. .. . eople aware,” Dab Nationwide statistics show of his neighboring 5 Pf r , cent of P eo P^ 7,000 didn’t apprecto'jventiona d.ets can lose 40 ep carcasses, but^ ando "y percent can to live with the siri^r? n ut half of them iH|. Roberts « n I sa y s that ’ un - ,w,” he said. “The# r her we, & ht ‘ lo j> s programs, , , • „ fis supported hy scientific Bhat is constantly updated, retired from the NoljeSouthwest Bariatric Nut- retired schoolteaiffl , say they fear big® inspiring with thefiL' ^ artment to drive ill f F* I q • land, which has ^ kv- o • ndustrial and is ® • :hie’s industrial pahj (intends his fence! taged eight to lOtiw 1979 incident \<asi .He has a bunch ofof trucks supporting! 1 d cables preventing ng into the highw 1 ned the matter ovu 1 rition Center uses a multidisci plinary approach to losing weight that was developed by Drs. George L. Blackburn and Peter G. Lindner at Harvard Medical School and Mas sachusetts Institute of Tech nology. The program involves a mod ified fast diet and counseling by a nutritionist, clinical psycholog ist and exercise specialist. Blackburn reported in a five- year follow-up of patients on his program that 75 percent to 80 percent lost 50 pounds or more and 40 percent were able to keep the weight off. Robertson said bariatrics — the medical management of the adult overweight patient — has acquired a shady image because it has been poorly regulated, allowing many “quacks” to op erate. “The proliferation of clinics has been only in the 1970’s,” he said. “When people saw how much money was in this thing they jumped on the band wagon.” The American Society of Bariatric Physicians estimates the total amount spent by Amer icans on weight reduction in 1981 at $15.4 billion to $17.2 bil lion. Robertson said this compares with a combined $26 billion for heart and cancer research and treatment. Robertson, a gastroenter ologist, said he got into bariatrics only because he was convinced the Blackburn program is suc cessful and safe. Patients are interviewed hy Robertson, their medical histor ies taken and extensive tests are performed. They are placed on a diet of only protein in the form of meat, fish and poultry. Robertson said patients go hungry for about four days, then begin to lose their appetites as their bodies burn up fat. Most patients lose, about a pound of fat a day — at a cost of about $ 15 to $18 per pound, he said. Later, patients are re introduced gradually to veget ables, breads, dairy products and fruit, until they learn how to eat a balanced diet while still maintaining their weight. Patients attend about 12 hours of classes each in nutri tion, exercise and behavior modification. riosity Shop Fall Festival Days Thur. Fri. Sat. (Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10-6, Thursdays 10-8 p.m.) 4 per set Double Old Fashion or 15 oz. 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IDENTS ;m 101/111 12/112 HOD vti |-|-i j-,4 njj0 o fcssor found football players IS mer I yOMuld consume a total of 15,000 jnes a day — or as much as [average man eats in one hey dehydrate themselves, themselves to vomit, run Ind in plastic sweatsuits — ything so they can compete at jwtain weight,” she adds. ;A( the other extreme, the "age areas, we and individual :ek 32. If you have ation of a grade <en during this quest at Room November 24, ansidered after iversity appeal ^onnor of First Year tistry Programs 1MITTEE 00 P.M. "OCK ules <en ie registered dietitian and emist says her intensive 3uter analysis of 16 diffe- teams at Syracuse Universi- Jaund football players eat with “tremendously huge junts of calories” and wrest- go to outrageous extremes ■meet competitive weight She says the wrestlers and gri- n players whose nutritional s she monitored have “ex- ely weird eating habits that lu ld harm their health after ing and competition end.” he says football players will time half their diet in fat !>ne. That’s a dangerously high v d, far exceeding the 35 per- figure recommended by fflical authorities for most #le. The professor says she saw •fte at the training table use 22 fff butter for six or seven B, then pour a cup of gravy % the 12 to 16 ounces of meat le ) consumed at dinner in the filing. ■As for lunch, they’ll eat six or ten hamburgers. «Eating practically nothing jftnis to be a way of life for rt iiers,” she added, saying teir daily caloric levels some- ntes are as low as 78 calories. 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