![Even the Cake Doesn't Tempt Her--Mrs. Elaine Johnson and Dr. Ernst J. Drenick, who heads an obesity research program at Wadsworth Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles, look over a cake with 100 candles sent to Mrs. Johnson yesterday to celebrate her losing more than 100 pounds. She's one of the persons who has been starving away excess weight on the program. Even the cake didn't tempt her. "I don't eat, but I have lots of friends here who do," she quipped. Mrs. Johnson weighed 315 pounds when she entered the hospital. Now she's down to a [illegible]](https://bpldcassets.blob.core.windows.net/derivatives/images/commonwealth:9g551t21c/image_access_800.jpg)
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Even the Cake Doesn't Tempt Her--Mrs. Elaine Johnson and Dr. Ernst J. Drenick, who heads an obesity research program at Wadsworth Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles, look over a cake with 100 candles sent to Mrs. Johnson yesterday to celebrate her losing more than 100 pounds. She's one of the persons who has been starving away excess weight on the program. Even the cake didn't tempt her. "I don't eat, but I have lots of friends here who do," she quipped. Mrs. Johnson weighed 315 pounds when she entered the hospital. Now she's down to a [illegible]
[ca. May 1963]
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