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TUCSON, Ariz. — Doctors
eekinga safe diet for obese peo-
flp have developed a 472-
alorie, high-protein prepara-
ion that appears to avoid the
omedmes fatal heart problems
issoaated with liquid-protein
■s widely used a few years
'go.
■The new diet, developed at
he University of Rochester
dedical Center, is a sup-
rlemented version of a prepara-
ion called Optifast available
mlv to doctors.
■Dr. Dean H. Lockwood told
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an American Heart Association
conference Monday that the fin
al product contains all essential
minerals, trace elements, vita
mins and essential fatty acids.
Carbohydrate is added along
with selenium, molybdenum,
fluoride and cadmium.
The preparation is not avail
able commercially, but details
will be revealed soon in the
American Journal of Medicine,
Lockwood said.
Safe high-protein, very low-
calorie diets are considered an
effective way to cut weight, he
said. These diets minimize loss
of muscle and maximize loss of
fat.
Liquid-protein diets gained
popularity in 1977 and Lock-
wood said an estimated 100,000
people w r ere using the diets ex
clusively for at least a month. It
soon became apparent, howev
er, that some people using the
diets were dying.
Government researchers
counted at least 60 such deaths
in 1977. Lockwood said detailed
Safe high-protein, very
low-calorie diets are
considered an effective
way to cut weight, Dr.
Dean H. Lockwood,
said. These diets mini
mize loss of muscle and
maximize loss of fat.
medical reports were available
on 17 people and 11 had epi
sodes of life-threatening heart
rhythm irregularities.
In addition, Lockwood said
autopsies revealed significant
diet
deterioration of the heart mus
cle, indicating the cardiac mus
cle was not spared during the
liquid-protein diet.
The Rochester researchers
tested six people on the initial
liquid-protein diet for 40 days
and found three developed
similar heart problems.
The new diet was put through
a similar test involving six peo
ple for 40 days and none de
veloped heart irregularities.
“The data does suggest a
hypocaloric (very low-calorie)
diet vigorously supplemented
with essential elements, micro
nutrients and vitamins appears
to be safer than the once-
popular, incomplete liquid-
protein preparations,” he said.
However, he said additional
testing with large numbers of
people is necessary to substanti
ate the findings.
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President Reagan, who
played football for Pat
O’Brien’s Knute Rockne in
the 1941 movie “Knute Rock
ne — All American,” will be
honored this week along with
two top football coaches of the
year. Reagan, once a radio
sports announcer, will receive
the 1983 “Tuss” McLaughry
Award from the American
Football Coaches Association
at the Eastman Kodak Com
pany coach of the year ban
quet Thursday in New York
City. Also to be honored are
the Kodak Coaches of the
Year, one from the university
division and one from the col
lege division, not yet
announced. Steve Allen will
provide entertainment. Past
McLaughry Award winners
include astronauts Bob Crip-
pen and John Young, Jimmy
Doolittle, James Stewart, Billy
Graham, Dwight D.
Eisenhower and John Wayne.
Newman
everywhere
Time was when Paul New
man kept a low profile, but
now he suddenly springs up in
newspaper and magazine in
terviews and on television talk
shows. One time he’s selling
his new film, “The Verdict,”
another time it’s his salad
dressing. He even appeared
on a public service ad for seat
belts. Newman is wooing
Oscar, according to News
week magazine.
“He’s a willing participant
in this campaign, no matter
what he says about hating
awards,” a studio executive
said. Newman has never won
an Academy Award. A
spokesman for Newman said
the actor is not seeking Oscar
votes.
Wayne Newton told David
Hartman on Monday’s “Good
Morning America” how bad
publicity dragging his name
into a Mafia investigation has
hurt him and his family:
“From a negative standpoint,
it has been awfully hard — not
only on myself but particular
ly for my family. My daughter
goes to school. She’s 6 years
old. We’ve had situations
where women in school take
votes whether or not their
children should play with
mine. I’ve had people walk up
to me and say, ‘You’re this or
you’re that ’ That’s difficult,
very, very difficult.”
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ITHACA, N Y. — Barring
major crop disasters, consumers
can expect no more than an av
erage increase in food costs this
year, says consumer educator
Josephine Swanson.
“Food prices in 1982 showed
the smallest annual gain since
1976,” Swanson told a recent
economic training school for
agents of Cornell Cooperative
Extension. Prices may increase
even less in 1983, she said.
She said the USDA has pre
dicted retail food price gains of 3
percent to 6 percent, with an av
erage of 4 percent, but above
average increases for pork, pre
pared foods, nonalcoholic be
verages, sugar and sweets.
Swanson said the main
reasons for price stability are de-
ressed farm prices, abundant
arvests and supplies, a low in
flation rate and a slow increase
in labor costs.
United Press International
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Chicken
was ranked among the five top
taste trends among foodservice
customers and operators in a re
cent survey.
The second annual study by
Restaurants and Institutions
magazine found 22 percent of
the respondents ate more chick
en in 1982 than in the previous
year, according to an article in a
National Broiler Council news
letter.
More than 63 percent of
foodservice operators ranked
chicken as one of their top good
sellers for 1982.
About 20 percent of the broil
er-fryer production in the Un
ited States goes to fast food re
staurants. That added up to ab
out 12 million pounds last year
on a ready-to-cook basis.
United Press International
CHICAGO — Croquet and
windmills were among Amer
icans’ top concerns in 1982.
Virginia Stenberg, head of
Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Lib
rary Research Center, bases her
comments on 140,000 questions
received during the year.
The queries often indicate
new trends just starting, Sten
berg says.
She credits nostalgia and
growing popularity among col
lege students for reviving in
terest in the lawn game that was
a national craze 50 years ago.
They are often the first to start
trends, she adds.
She thinks the windmill ques
tions have a more practical basis
— a search for cheaper energy
sources.
United Press International
NEW YORK — Babies reared
by their fathers while the
mothers work develop faster
than the norm.
Yale University child
psychiatrist Kyle Pruett, who
tested 17 such infants, found
they scored way above norms on
standardized development tests.
His findings are reported in the
January issue of Psychology
Today.
Pruett says the babies were
distinguished by the amount of
love and attention they got from
both parents. Unlike many
working fathers, working
mothers developed close attach
ments to their babies.
Most breast-fed the infants,
often at great inconvenience to
themselves, Pruett says.
United Press International
NEW YORK — American
readers apparently are fascin
ated by the lives of exceptional
women.
Six of 10 titles on a recent list
of best-selling paperback biog
raphies and autobiographies
concerned unique women who
display strength and independ
ence, triumphing over problems
that range from incest to child
abuse and drug addiction.
Women whose life stories
made the list of the Association
of American Publishers and the
American Booksellers Associa
tion are Joan Crawford, Gloria
Vanderbilt, television producer
Barbara Gordon, Ingrid Berg
man, artist Georgia O’Keeffe
and Katherine Brady. Brady’s
“Father’s Days” is her account of
a 10-year incestuous relation
ship with her father.
United Press International
PUEBLO, Colo. — Are you
confused by all you hear about
the dangers of too much sodium
consumption?
A free pamphlet from the
federal government’s Consum
er Information Center can help.
“Sodium” describes sources
of the chemical, gives the
sodium content of a Wide variety
of foods, and tells what you can
do to keep your sodium intake at
a healthful level. The pamphlet
unfolds to a 12 by 18 Va inch post
er that would make an attractive
wall decoration for the kitchen.
United Press International
MOSCOW — To the list of
pressing issues in the Soviet
Union such as nuclear dis
armament and trade sanc
tions add a crusty problem —
bread.
The Communist Party
newspaper Pravda devoted a
full page Monday to the issue
of the thrifty use of bread, in
cluding discussion of why
loaves are sold without protec
tive packing.
Fedor Kolomiets, first de
puty minister for the food in
dustry, said the Soviet chemic
al, timber and paper indus
tries could not supply adequ
ate packing materials.
Besides, he said, bread
wrapped in plastic loses its fla
vor more quickly than bare
loaves.
United Press International
A Soviet satellite high above
Earth zeroes is on an American
space vehicle. It comes within 50
yards, hovers momentarily, and
suddenly explodes, sending
hundreds of pieces of shrapnel
through the U.S. vehicle.
The chances of such a disas
ter are increasing, some say, be
cause of the U.S. and Soviet
emphasis on military space tech
nology. Advocates of increased
spending claim that our falling
behind the Soviets heightens or
vulnerability.
But Washington’s Worl-
dwatch Institute says more
funding for space weapons les
sens security for both superpow
ers. In an article called “Space:
The High Frontier in Perspec
tive,” author Daniel Deudney,
writes, “New space weapons now
being tested by both countries
make each more vulnerable to
first strike and will not give
either a defensive advantage.”
Furthermore, he says, the trend
could stall arms control talks be
cause verifying compliance in
space is so difficult.