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Food - Not Starvation
For Weight Program
Food, not starvation, is the hard core of any weight-reducing program that will get you back to your desirable weight and keep you there permanently.
Overweight is one of the major health problems in America today, says an article in Today’s Health, the magazine of the American Medical Association. About one in every five men and women over 30 in the United States is carrying I about a dangerous number of excess pounds.
Reducing diets abound. So-called “health” and “natural” foods, pills, vitamin supplements and drugs for weight control are legion. There, are gadgets sucft as vibrating machines, Electric belts and mechan! ical exercjses. The article estimates I “more than $100 million is wasted ! annually on these nonsensical prod| ucts by the guileless fat.”
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