European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 20 the stars and stripes monday june 13, 1977liquid protein diet another gimmick or a breakthrough by Nadine Brozan new York times ome have hailed it As a breakthrough inthe Battle against obesity. Others say it is no More than a gimmick that will pass into obscurity before next year. But whatever its future talk of the revolutionary new diet is on everyone s lips and the Faith it inspires has liquid protein drinks passing through Many of those lips. The regime known formally As the protein spar ing modified fast is based on a product that s at least 20 years old. But or. Robert Linn an Osteopath put it on the dietary map earlier this year with his Book the last Chance in Pursuit of that last Chance dieters forgo All food and subsist on a liquid protein supple ment until they have lost their desired weight the liquid is said to taste dreadful even when mixed As suggested with water or Low calorie soda. And it is an expensive source of protein a pint which lasts slightly More than three Days was sell ing for Between $5.79 and $7.25 in i recent tour of new York stores a quart was $10 to $12, depending on the such names As a Rollin Gro lean super pro Gest App or emf the liquid protein serves Ashe sole sustenance for the diet s adherent. The daily supplement of about five ounces Worth about 300calories, makes the crucial difference Between dras tic rapid weight loss of the modified fast and the total starvation of a True fast. Most of the supplements in demand today Are enzyme Hydro lived Collagen taken from the fibrous protein Collagen that is found in a variety of animal tissues and then converted in laboratories to a vaguely gelatinous liquid. Most labels specify that the product is predigested an unappetizing term that Means he first step of the digestive process partly Sepa rating the protein into its amino acids is con ducted outside the human body. the product of carbohydrates and fats though some manufacturers later replace Small traces of the carbohydrates. If a person were to truly fast the metabolic system deprived of the glucose necessary for the brain would turn for fuel to the Muscles heart kid Neys or other parts of the Anatomy known As lean body mass. The liquid supplement intervenes spar ing those repositories of protein so that the body Burns away Tat instead. Also because protein is the body s chief source of nitrogen the liquid maintains the proper nitrogen Are also advised to take an assortment of vitamins and minerals potassium and folic acid i particular and to drink generous quantities of such fluids As water Coffee and dietetic results can be startling. At a recent Hospital seminar on the regime it was reported that one Manon such a diet had shed 321 pounds in 365 Days. Twenty pounds much of it fluid is considered a average drop for the first month. After that the loss Levels off a bit but continues at a steady and impressive rate. Although the diet Lithe cocktail party topic of the moment among people who Are sipping supplement instead of martinis of coarse the product has Long been used by weight lifters body builder and health food customers who wanted to augment the protein component of their Normal diet. There b also substantial medical precedent forthe use of the liquid protein in weight reduction it was first used for people too sick to got into this through the Side door said or. George Blackburn who is credited with developing the concept of the protein sparing fast. Blackburn is associate professor of surgery at Harvard medical school and director of the intensive care unit at new England deaconess was daily facing people who were losing weight because they were very ill and when you re ill that loss comes from important body tissues Muscles Bone marrow and blood he said. The goal became to reduce the amount of protein being burned off from those critical parts of the body so we started giving protein through intravenous feeding and then the weight loss was confined to and a team of colleagues begun to apply the same principles to obese but healthy patients with the use of lean meat poultry or fish which he explained met the same protein require ments As liquids or powders created in the Laborati other doctors said they preferred what the called the chemically defined protein because Al lowing people to consume real food made them More vulnerable to temptation. Some patients say they find the liquid substitute easier to Deal with. Too. I like the fact that i Don t have to decide every Day what i m going to use my allotted calories on said a fort Lee. N.j., Bache Lor. And the rate at which you lose weight 42pounds in nine weeks in my Case blows your could it also blow the Dieter s Beacht that depends. The individual who boys liquid protein Over the counter which is Leal because it i damned As a food and Dot drug Bat does not consult a physician. Is playing Roulette with his health. Besides such disturbances As fatigue and dizzy spells hair loss dry skin bad breath and constipation doctors noted that the unchecked diet could provoke serious if not critical conditions especially in individuals with undiagnosed kidney liver cardiac vascular or metabolic problems. But even detractors concede that when carefully monitored the diet is Safe for appropriate patients. Those patients must be willing to spend Between $50and $80 every week in addition to a heftier charge for the initial physicians conduct Complete physical examinations along with batteries of a rays an blood and urine tests before granting their approx medical authorities do not advocate this stringent routine for the individual who wants to drop 10 or 15 pounds. The nutrition service at it. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland which has operated protein fasting clinic since 1971, accepts Only those considered morbidly obese those with 50 or More pounds to lose. Most patients there carry Between 100 and 200 pounds in excess the pioneering or. Blackburn is still with holding judgment. The popularity of liquid proteins premature because you should get a substantial weight loss sustained for a significant amount of time most physicians say five years and we Don t know yet if the modified fast is of value so everyone on it should be Given an informed consent form to sign and should be part of a clinical much of the controversy is focused on himself. Some Call him a Savior others an. Opportunist possibly because be has opened offices la new York Washington Newark Del and Broomall and a too a. There Are some who contend that the Book which sold 75,000 copies in hard cover and 1.3 million in paperback was ill advised because it prescribed to the Layman a regime that can be overseen Only by a Phy responded to such charges by saying conventional Medicine dictates that research be research then goes from the doctor to the patient but doctors Are not interested in handling Obes Ity so we decided to educate the patients first. The Book is something they can take to their has also run into problems Over the fact that the Only formula mentioned in the Book and it was mentioned repeatedly was Polinn. Last december new York state attorney Gener Al Louis Lefkowitz ordered the Walden Book company which owns 24 stores in new York to give purchasers of the hardcover volume a refund be cause store advertisements failed to disclose that formula called proline was an indispensable part of the described diet and that it could not be obtained except through the or. Una has Bow stopped prescribe Etc proline to favor of the Uuna Sofii formula. I realized i was being identified with one product. So to avoid having an ethical problem i donated the name to the nutritional research foundation Ataro it. Rom foundation and they in turn allow Wallach pharmaceuticals to manufacture foundation gets a Royalty but i do not he said. He does however sit on the Board of the foundation and has contributed a Large part of its seed Money. I sat next to a really neat lady at a luncheon the other week who got to talking about braces on the Teeth. Hers. She said How come you never mentioned my braces i stared awkwardly into her fruit cock Tail and said i Don t know. I guess Idin t want to make you tin not she said. You Are. It s funny kids Are great about it. They la come right up and say. When do they come off or would t you kill for a Cara Mel but not adults. They act like they Don t see it occurred to me adults Are that Way about a lot of things. People make such a Flap about face and body lifts. I personally considered Eleanor by Ermo Bottock at wits end Roosevelt the most Beautiful woman i Ever met but if something bothers you us you can still get the parts 1 say a for it or As a Wise Friend of mine once said to Beck with my ironing Board let s pot the sul Boneright up front where everyone can ice is something admirable about a woman or Man who works on perpetual maintenance. My Mother in Law went through extensive and expensive bridgework at the age of 74. Another woman in her 60s got a face lift and it made such difference to her. Too often we re intimidated by age. Everything becomes predictable. At age 20, the Teeth go at 30. The skin dries up at 40. The eyes Dun at so All the Muscles relax and bag around your Knees and at 60 you fall asleep during a tax audit. I defy Yon to gather together group of women or men and Rod one who is totally Happy with the Way she looks. Ope Friend of mine confessed she hated her now. What s wrong with it i asked i works does t it that s not the she said. I looks like George c. Scott so so. I can t she had the nose altered and i swear never saw the difference but she did. The mind is also not exempt from the Elf up movement route. People who Are College graduates Are the first to admit it overrated. I knew people who graduated with honors who could t operate aae Nav wend of sine lived the Day when she could enrol to the uni Wen be Cou enrol University and unlock the doors of ignorance whatever stands in the Way of your self Confidence. Where i know i never started to live until i lost ten pounds. Five off of each Warrn 1c 1911 f7.ih enter Pritt ii
