GROWING SLIM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 6 (Supplement)

GROWING SLIM.

Summertime is the too plump woman's chance of reducing her" figure to a satisfying slimness. Not a moment of a sunny holiday should bo lost if the ambition is to be realised. In cold weather it is doubly hard to dispel one's fat, for winter is the building-up time. Fat, apart from a rare hereditary form, is usually clue to a too generpus diet combined with too little exercise. Hot these causes can be corrected 011 holiday. Food to Avoid. Food that is fattening, such as fats, carbo-hydrates and other starchy materials, should be reduced. Potatoes, bread, sugar and sweets have to* be avoided if slimness is to be regained. Plenty ot exercise is requisite, but it should be graduated. Don't avoid a broiling sun, provided you keep your head and neck covered; it will enable fhe pores of your skin to act freely. Take care,- however, not to bo too thorough about it, or heat exhaustion may ensue. As you exercise open your lungs fully, so that your blood may be afforded an opportunity to carry plenty of oxygen to oxidise the useless fat stores in the tissues. Good Exercises. For young people tennis and swimming are excellent exercfSes; for older people walking is undoubtedly the best. Early rising and a smart tramp before breakfast. Early to bed and no more than eight hours' sleep. Two meals a day will be quite enough, and they should be small in bulk, though adequately nourishing. For a very stout woman a periodic fast day is advisable. Plenty of lemonade should be taken A "regular morning saline, such as effervescing citrate of magnesia, is a sound plan, and this in conjunction with a cold bath and a brisk rub down, for those who can stand it, may cure without recourse to massage and Turkish baths and other practices of doubtful virtue.