KEEPING SLIM

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 14

KEEPING SLIM

A starvation diet, as.has beou proved time after time, is not a sure, and certainly not a safe, method of reducing weight. And the reason must be obvious to anyone who gives the matter careful thought (writes "Jeannette" in the London "Daily Chronicle"). While the starvation diet is rigidly followed, weight is lost, but the moment it is abandoned, and sooner or later it must be, the pounds lost, whether few or many, are quickly regained, and generally a few more are added. The two following rules should prove helpful:— First, adhere strictly to the dry meal habit. Drinking at meals is the surest way of putting on flesh. It is also very bad for the digestion, and although many people think that those who suffer with poor digestion are always very thin, such is by no means the case. A bad digestion often makes the sufferer put on weight more rapidly than any | other cause. If you would be slim | and also fit. physically,, do not drink at meal time. To take your meals dry helps the process of digestion, and ,also prevents the accumulation .of fratty tissue. . ' . • Drink at least a quart of .water every day. If you can, take more, and take it between meals, half a pint at a time, and even after five or six weeks you will notice the difference. You will be. slimmer, your eyes will bo brighter, and your complexion clearer, and you will feel well physically and mentally. The strained juice of a lemon, taken in a small glass of, water, half an hour before, the two chief meals of the day, I is a great aid in reducing flesh. Hot baths are a great aid in reducing weight if taken systematically, and are far less injurious to one's general] health than a starvation diet. It is best to take, these baths at night, and if reducing salts are added, the results will be more rapid. More hot water should be added as the bath cools, and the "patient" should remain in it for twenty minutes. Take a glass of hot lemon and water after the bath, and — then to. bed.