Losing Weight, Gaining Wife

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31090, 20 June 1966, Page 2

Losing Weight, Gaining Wife

(N.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) MIAMI, June 18. Martin Greenwald is not only losing 300 pounds (21st 81b), he is gaining a wife. Greenwald, aged 24, has lived on nothing but vitamin pills and a diet of soft drinks since February 28, when he weighed 36st 41b. He has now slimmed down to 28st 41b and said today he thinks he is well on his way to becoming “a person, not a freak from another world.” He is also on his way to marrying Myrna House, “one of the sweetest nurses in the world.” Greenwald met her during his weight treatment at the National Children’s Cardiac Hospital in Miami, and they plan to marry in late January when he has

reduced to a reasonable 14 to 18st. IBs diet, supervised both by Miss House and doctors in a University of Miami medical school research programme is simple: No food. Each day he eats two vitamin pills and drinks all the non-calorie beverages he wants. Beyond that, doctors have helped him to understand why, at the age of 13, he began to eat compulsively and raise his weight from list 61b then to more than 36st 51b 11 years later. It was easy, Greenwald said, but his only clearcut violation was when he ate some chicken broth. “Later, I sneaked a bit of roast beef. But my conscience won. I spat it out”