SLIM WOMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20243, 1 May 1929, Page 9

SLIM WOMEN.

THE IDEAL LUNCK. Dr. Mary Halton,.a woman authority on dietetics, comes to the defence the feminine way of dieting and the desire for slim figures. She says:— "If working girls and v women between 15 and 30 are dying more japidly than males of the same age group, I would not blame it on their noonday diet, for boys eat practically tho same things as the girls. I would say lack of sunlight is tho most baneful influence. Tho great problem of to-day is to bring-industry into the sunlight. "Girls work harder than men. A woman's work is never done, as truly to-dav as ever. The working girl gets home "and often does housework." The boys es,cape this and get all the sunlight there is. Maybe that is why their death rate - is lower. "This craze for having women become fatter is wrong. Obesity is tv disease. Some of those clamouring for fatter women are getting their terms mixod. That voluptuous beauty ascribed to the youthful female is more often due to perfect health, a perfect texture of the skin and to youthful vitality than to over-plumpness. "Let the girls eat their ice-cream sodas and sandwiches for lunch. An apalysis oi these foods shows a high percentage of calories. As to the supposed effect of dieting upon the birth rate, let us_ remember that voluntary parenthood is a new idea in. the world. \ oiuntary s parenthood springs from intellect and economic stress, and not from dieting.- f ; Dr. Mary Swartz Rose, of Teachers College, Columbia University, gives tho _ . following as an ideal lunch for the busi- . v ness irirl: Cream of fcomito soup, -220 calories; two pieces of toast; 100 calories: butter, 100 calories;, rice puddmj,. 32&, cal.oriea<; :< 1 * "■ i'