FAT MEN OF ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 2

FAT MEN OF ENGLAND

GUARD ON WAISTLINE URGED Is Britain becoming a nation of fat men f While the men of other nations are keeping slim and lit, physical culture experts say, the average Englishman tends to get more and more indolent and more and more corpulent. _ In another few years one of Britain s foremost claims po fame may be its numbers of fifteen-stone males. This alarming prediction was made to the ‘Sunday Chronicle’ by Mr Ralph Stone, a physical culture expert, who is making a study of the physical fitness of various nations. “Before the war,” he said, “Germany was known all the world over as the country of fat men. “Go to Germany to-day and you will

hardly see a _ fat man under forty.Physical exercise has worked wonders, and everybody is at fit as can be. All the fat men "nowadays seem to be in Britain. “ In a walk along Piccadilly theother day I counted in less than ten minutes more than thirty men who must have weighed about fifteen stone each. “ Wherever you go you see stout men —and the tragedy is that many of them are quite young.” Other physical culture experts w London sounded the same warning. A proprietbr of a popular London restaurant supplied a possible reason for the growing waistlines. “Most men eat far too big meals,” ho said. “They eat until they can eat no more.”