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...used to drop 75 lbs. after a heart attack 23 years ago. The key feature: three weeks of dieting followed by a week or two of relatively guilt-free maintenance eating. With exercise, he says, the rotation diet can result in a daily loss of two-thirds of a pound. Exults Katahn: "It's safe and it's quick...
...Kroger supermarket chain eagerly boosted the effort; it offered to distribute the brochure and agreed to weigh out dieters as well as their vegetables. Some 12,000 hopeful pound shuckers herded through the chain's groceries during the first weekend. Material on the rotation diet may become available soon to supermarkets throughout the country. The plan restricts women to 600 calories for each of the first three days, 900 during the next four, then 1,200 over the following seven. The third week repeats the first. (Men get an additional 600 calories daily.) To soothe hunger pangs, dieters can munch...
...million in overdue loans, took the unusual step of declaring Sudan ineligible for additional assistance. The economic pinch forced Suwar al Dahab's 15-member ruling Transitional Military Council to increase taxes, raise prices on some basic foods and gasoline by as much as 50%, and devalue the Sudanese pound, currently at four pounds to the dollar...
Ferraro was escorted to a reception in Pound Hall, and the evening ended without any mishap...
...Monday, Ronald Reagan received his regular morning briefing in the Oval Office from his taciturn National Security Adviser, Vice Admiral John Poindexter. The President's jaw clenched when Poindexter mentioned the missiles, but unlike most of the others present, he was content to wait. "He didn't pound the table or try to micro-manage the situation," said one participant. "He had in mind what happened when they tried to run the Iranian hostage rescue operation from 8,000 miles away." The President, referring to Kelso, said only this: "The man knows what he's doing...