STREAMLINED FIGURES

Evening Star, Issue 22805, 13 November 1937, Page 25

STREAMLINED FIGURES

[By Donald Loomis, Noted Hollywood Physical Director.] Most women have a -weak sacrum, so all of you should try this exercise. It is also a great hip reducer, v Lie down on the floor or exercise mat, face up; fold arms across chest; draw the knees up, and raise the hips off the floor. Lower slowly, and raise again. Do this 10 times. If you are troubled with constipation, expand and contract the stomach muscles while your knees are raised. Then massage the abdomen with the fingers in a circular movement. AVe hear too much about constipation these days. In former days people worked hard, got thirsty, perspired, and drank lots of water. They walked because they had no cars, and they kept themselves in better shape. People don’t perspire now, because they seldom do physical labour, so they don’t notice thirst and don’t drink water. They are usually under a nervous strain, turning out w r ork at a pressing pace, driving in traffic, or trying to beat the other fellow. They have no time to relax. Early deaths of brilliant men, such as have occurred lately in the motion picture industry, can be laid to this nervous strain, this inability to relax. You must make up your mind to take time to preserve your most valuable asset—health. Madge Evans is a beautiful, wellproportioned girl, whose tendency is to take on weight below the waist; but Madge has a stubborn streak in her that will not give the excess

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pounds a chance to get ahead. She is a conscientious exerciser and she —not Nature—should take the bows for her streamlined figure. If you are inclined to take on weight easily, you needn’t make dieting a chore. Just remember never to take two starches at one meal, and that if you take meat at a meal you must not take eggs or milk at the same time. I don’t always give people diets. Jean Harlow was one of those fortunate girls who could eat anything at anytime and vary never an ounce. But Jean was not a lazy girl. She came in to keep in condition, whether she neded it or not. If you would like to reduce the hips follow the above exercise with this one: Sit on the floor, knees bent and apart, toes together. Grasp the toes firmly with both hands. Roll over backward without letting go of the toes, then roll to right side, then to left and back to the sitting position. Next close the knees, still bent, clasp the hands under the knees, and roll backward and forward with the same motion as that of a rocking horse. It is regularity that counts in all exercise. You can’t do every exercise you ever heard of one night, and then forget all about it for a week and expect a streamlined figure to develop of its own accord. You needn’t do the same exercises every day, but you must do a comprehensive set that will take care of your particular figure faults or keep you in condition. On Wednesday—Reducing Hips.