Doctor's Notebook 11
Dieting and Will Power
V« hy is it so hard to stay on a diet?
If you’ve ever tried to lose some extra pounds, you know how hard
it is to stick to calorie counting long enough to reach your objective.
Before you conclude that you are hopelessly lacking in “will power,” ;
you might consider some new light shed by medical science on why i
dieting is so difficult. <
While extra poundage is only a
minor health problem for most of
us, it may be a life-threatening
matter for some heart and diabetic
patients. But even many of these
find it virtually impossible to stick
to a diet.
Now some researchers are sug
gesting that something even more
powerful than hunger may be in
volved in side-tracking our resolve
to stop before dessert. In fact,
the unpleasant empty feeling that
drives us to night-time raids on the
refrigerator is probably not hunger
but something equally primitive
—anxiety.
Even moderate reductions in
food intake, these investigators say,
may set off uncomfortable tension
and anxiety. It is these feelings—
rather than a desire for food itself
—that drive us back to reassuring
second helpings.
If cutting down food intake
makes almost anyone feel a little
tense and anxious, for the really
obese person the anxiety' precipi
tated by a weight-reducing diet
can be virtually unbearable. This
is because many obese persons have
for years used quantities of food —
the oldest “tranquilizer”—to quiet
anxiety and tension.
This is why the best prescription
for losing weight is the one almost
none of us can take—eat less! Al
though some 31 per cent of all
Americans are on a diet at any
given time, few achieve permanent
weight reduction.
There are no magic pills that
"melt” off weight while the user
i
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continues to eat as much as he
wants. Various drugs have been of
fered in recent years as helpful in
reducing appetite. Some of these
have been effective for a short time,
but apparently their effects are
washed out after a few weeks by a
rising tide of diet-induced tension.
Recently a new weight-control
drug designed to check the tension
and anxiety that pushes most of us
off a diet has been developed. The
new drug, called Appetrol, contains
Miltown, the well-known tranquil
izer, together with a proven appe
tite depressant. The tranquilizer
has been added to relieve the ten
sions that build up when the dieter
deprives himself of food—tensions
that would otherwise drive him
back to food. Thus Appetrol, which
is available only on a doctor’s
prescription, considers the dieter’s
will power as well as weight.
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‘Few Equals In History,’
Lauds President on
MacArthur’s 80th Birthday
NEW YORK, tPI — General of
the Army Douglas MacArthur,
spending his 80th birthday quietly
here yesterday, had warm best
wishes from President Eisen
hower.
Eisenhower, who once served as
an officer under MacArthur, said
the general’s life “in service and
in distinction has had few equals
in all our history.”
The general was spending the
day in his Waldorf Towers apart
ment. No interview, news con
ference, or statement was planned.
With him was his wife, Jean.
The general’s son, Arthur, 21, was
to be with them after classes at
Columbia University.
MacArthur was to have a re
union with members of his World
War II staff last night.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional gusty
easterly winds. Little change in
temperature.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 34, lowest 24. Max. wind
38 mph from the E.N.E. Sunrise
at 9 am, sunset at 3:30 p.m.
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State Will Retain
Mineral Rights In
Public Land Sales
ANCHORAGE, Ufi — Proposed
land sale regulations made public
by the state this week provide
for retention of all mineral rights
by the state on any land sold.
Officials said this mineral res
ervation is required by a provi
sion of the Alaska Statehood Act.
Because it is a federal law re
quirement, they said, the state
has no choice but to include it
in the land regulations.
The proposed regulations pro- j
vide for installment plan pur
chasing of state lands, if the pur
chase exceeds $250. No limit is
placed on the number of years for
pay-out but minimum annual pay
ments of 10 per cent of the prin
cipal are required.
A 10 per cent down payment is
called for and interest is to be
charged at the rate of 5 per cent
annually.
In addition to the 640-acre pur
chase limitation previously an
nounced, certain fire, sanitation
and building limitations are to be
imposed.
Sanitation provisions must meet
minimum health standards and
care must be taken to prevent
water pollution.
The purchaser must take reas
onable precautions to prevent fir«s
and act to suppress grass, brush
or forest fires on his land.
Buildings on such land must
meet any local authorized build
ing or zoning codes.
After being advertised for three
weeks, the land will be sold at
public auction by the Lands Divi
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sioner of Natural Resources can
reject any bids.
KELLER TURNS OVER
$41.50 TO MARCH OF DIMES
Juke Box Keller has announced
that he has turned over to the
Polio fund $41.50, netted in his
juke boxes, as his contribution to
the March of Dimes.
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DOOR COUNT
ON 3 CRIPPLERS
A Marching Mother will ring your
doorbell one evening this month.
Please answer.
She is one of the two million New
March of Dimes volunteers seeking
information on the health of the
nation and support for the fight
against birth defects, arthritis and
polio—three cripplers that affect one
out of every four American families.
She is counting on you to help
define the problem of crippling in
our community.
She is counting on you to help pre
vent crippling diseases with your con
’ tribution to the Aetc March of Dimes.
MARCH OF DIMES
Well,' you can see that Diana is getting that kind of
care from Mrs. Robin Morley, physical therapist. There isnt
much more medical science can do for arthritis patients, all
11,000,000 of them, children included. Right now there’s no
known cure or prevention.
However, your support of the NEW March of Dimes
in 1960 will help medical research go on looking. As in crip
pling polio, research will someday find a solution to this
No. 1 crippler in America.
Your support will also provide patient care for arthritis
victims like Diana. Also the urgently needed training of
medical personnel like Mrs. Morley.
The fact is your March of Dimes contribution might
help complete the medical chart this way: Prognosis: Great
— just great.
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