CARE WITH SLIMMING DIETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20650, 23 August 1930, Page 7 (Supplement)

CARE WITH SLIMMING DIETS.

BY A HARLEY STREET SPECIALIST. Although " slimming" diets may greatly benefit some people, by many women they are being carried to excess. The best method consists of a reduction of the quantity of food as a whole, plus a substitution of salads and fruit juice for the move solid dishes—especially starchy puddings. This is frequently overdone. The rigours of the dietary that some women adopt remind us of Mark Twain's story of the man who experimented with his horse in seeking for the least quantity of food on which it could be sustained. Ho boasted that he had reduced it to one straw a day, and would have succeeded in keeping it altogether without food had the animal not died before the conclusion of the experiment. Many advances have been made recently in the knowledge of dietetics, only tit bo turned into ridicule by people who must spoil a good thing by overdoing it. Ono of the earliest means of reducing fat by special diet was advocated several generations ago by Dr. Banting. His principlo lay chiefly in the reduction of starch and fluid; A fallacy still overlooked by those who follow it is tho belief that baked bread or toast is less fattening than the fresh loaf. Those who eat little should be specially careful to cat tho right things, particularly in regard to their vitamin content.