{"id":31113,"date":"2025-07-04T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31113"},"modified":"2025-07-04T16:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:26:48","slug":"s-daniel-abraham-the-force-behind-slim-fast-dies-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31113","title":{"rendered":"S. Daniel Abraham, the Force Behind Slim-Fast, Dies at 100"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He turned a tiny family business into a billion-dollar weight-loss empire by replacing calorie counting and forbidden foods with \u201cjust add milk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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S. Daniel Abraham, an entrepreneur who turned a tiny family business into a giant that dominated the weight-loss industry with popular brands like Slim-Fast and Dexatrim, died on Sunday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 100.<\/p>\n

His death was confirmed by a spokesman for the family, Rabbi Abe Unger.<\/p>\n

Mr. Abraham built his fortune on a pharmaceutical company that his father, a dentist, bought for $5,000 in 1947 after spotting it in an advertisement in the trade publication Drug Store News. Mr. Abraham expanded the company into an empire with a line that came to include Slim-Fast, a weight-loss product that involved no complex diets, calorie counting or weighing of ingredients, and that did not forbid specific foods or beverages.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I wanted to bring to market was a meal replacement in liquid form, composed of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, and even a little healthy fat,\u201d he wrote in \u201cEverything Is Possible,\u201d a memoir published in 2010 and written with Joseph Telushkin.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Abraham\u2019s memoir was published in 2010.<\/span>William Morrow<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

When Slim-Fast \u2014 since rebranded as SlimFast \u2014 was introduced in 1977, it was sold premixed in powder form, which buyers then blended with skim milk. The beverage was intended to constitute breakfast and lunch followed by a \u201csensible\u201d dinner, as its television commercials advised. A ready-to-drink version appeared in 1989.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Abraham, whose family of six at the time lived in Israel for much of the 1970s, was also active politically, especially in his later years. In pursuit of Middle East peace, he cultivated relationships with top Israeli, American and Arab leaders, including Prime Minister Ariel Sharon<\/a>, a friend for more than three decades. Mr. Abraham was particularly close to Bill and Hillary Clinton, becoming one of the biggest donors to Mrs. Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign for president.<\/p>\n

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He turned a tiny family business into a billion-dollar weight-loss empire by replacing calorie counting and forbidden foods with \u201cjust add milk.\u201dS. Daniel Abraham, an entrepreneur who turned a tiny family business into a giant that dominated the weight-loss industry with popular brands like Slim-Fast and Dexatrim, died on Sunday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 100.His death was confirmed by a spokesman for the family, Rabbi Abe Unger.Mr. Abraham built his fortune on a pharmaceutical company that his father, a dentist, bought for $5,000 in 1947 after spotting it in an advertisement in the trade publication Drug Store News. Mr. Abraham expanded the company into an empire with a line that came to include Slim-Fast, a weight-loss product that involved no complex diets, calorie counting or weighing of ingredients, and that did not forbid specific foods or beverages.\u201cWhat I wanted to bring to market was a meal replacement in liquid form, composed of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, and even a little healthy fat,\u201d he wrote in \u201cEverything Is Possible,\u201d a memoir published in 2010 and written with Joseph Telushkin.Mr. Abraham\u2019s memoir was published in 2010.William MorrowWhen Slim-Fast \u2014 since rebranded as SlimFast \u2014 was introduced in 1977, it was sold premixed in powder form, which buyers then blended with skim milk. The beverage was intended to constitute breakfast and lunch followed by a \u201csensible\u201d dinner, as its television commercials advised. A ready-to-drink version appeared in 1989.Mr. Abraham, whose family of six at the time lived in Israel for much of the 1970s, was also active politically, especially in his later years. In pursuit of Middle East peace, he cultivated relationships with top Israeli, American and Arab leaders, including Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a friend for more than three decades. Mr. Abraham was particularly close to Bill and Hillary Clinton, becoming one of the biggest donors to Mrs. Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign for president.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31115,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31116,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31113\/revisions\/31116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}