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Show w Weight Melts Away on Daily Diet of 20 Apples TACOMA, WASH. Miss Evelyn Appleton Lock is dieting. In 45 days she has reduced her weight from 166 pounds to 136. She says she will keep on dieting until she is down to 125. Her diet is a source of delight to Washington orchard owners and to the surplus marketing administration administra-tion and a source of argument among physicians. . Miss Lock is eating only apples 20 a day with apple juice for a chaser. She got the idea in Yakima, Wash., where she visited there from her home in Indianapolis. She reports she feels fine and that the apple juice puts an end to the appetite she blames for her previous-weight. previous-weight. By way of precaution Miss Lock, 39, has a physical examination twice a week. Her blood pressure was between 170 and 180 at the start. It dropped to 120. Her pulse dropped from 86 to 72. Physicians are watching her diet with much interest. Apple growers of Washington and the surplus marketing administra-tion administra-tion aren't worried too much about f the medical aspects. To them, strug- gling with an oversupply of apples,, the diminishing Miss Lock looms larger and larger as an "angel." |