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Oct 14, 2013 · Doctors today would most likely offer Taft weight-loss surgery — which could have a big effect on weight — or drugs, which have a small effect at best. But the diet he was advised to follow...
“Doctors today would most likely offer Taft weight-loss surgery — which could have a big effect on weight — or drugs, which have a small effect at best.” Click here to read the full New York Times article “In Struggle With Weight, Taft Used a Modern Diet” by Gina Kolata.
Oct 15, 2013 · William Howard Taft was America’s heaviest president. He would have preferred being seen and remembered for something else, and took steps to lose weight. Taft’s story of weight loss and regain, described in today’s Annals of Internal Medicine, sounds completely familiar today, more than 100 years later.
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Feb 27, 2023 · William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States, was severely obese––weighing more than 300 pounds. Today, he likely would be a candidate for bariatric surgery, a procedure that wasn't available when he was alive.
Jan 17, 2022 · President William Howard Taft was known for his size, but he successfully completed two weight-loss plans when he wasn't in the White House.
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Oct 17, 2013 · The weight-loss plan devised by the English dietician worked. According to Levine, Taft shed nearly 60 pounds on the diet, dropping from 314 pounds in December 1905 to 255 pounds in April...
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Oct 15, 2013 · One treatment that wasn't around in Taft's time is obesity surgery —where the digestive tract is altered so that a person can eat only a limited amount of food at a time. In some cases, the...
