Medicine: Gourmet Dieting

Eleven months ago, Tom Donnelly was a big man in Washington. He was a columnist for the Washington Daily News and he weighed 350 lbs. Today he is still a columnist, but hardly a big man; in less than a year, he has lost 175 Ibs. This week, in a series of articles for the Scripps-Howard papers (illustrated by a composite before & after photograph), Tom Donnelly, resolute gourmet, tells how he did it with a minimum of outrage to his taste buds Dieting need not be prolonged torture he says, but it's important "not to let yourself be kidded...

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