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| | TIME.com: Fat & Unhappy -- Oct. 20, 1947 -- Page 1 |
 | | Fat people, to Dr. Bruch (5 ft. 8 in., 145 lbs.), are not the placid and jolly folks they are generally reputed. |
 | | The only really effective cure for fatness, Dr. Bruch believes, is not in exercise or diets (although the "pure mechanical reducing," now popular in the reducing academies, is sometimes surprisingly successful, but only when the students have enough emotional control of themselves to go through with the course). |
 | | Fatness, she says, is a psychosomatic condition; the blubbery patient belongs not in the gym, but in a psychiatrist's office. |
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