FAREWELL TO FATNESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23685, 17 December 1938, Page 31

FAREWELL TO FATNESS

Whenever the plump and the lean are gathered together, fierce argument rages. Which is more difficult, to gain weight or to lose it? (asks an exchange). The too thin and the too plump regard each other with a gloomy eye, both convinced that theirs is the harder fate. The first thing both types must cease to say is that "eating makes no difference, no difference whatsoever." The second " that exercises are no use." How much you eat may be of little importance. What you eat and how you digest it matters enormously Exercises do not necessarily make you either thin or fat. What they do do is to make you properly proportioned. Now let us take the case of rotund Mrs A, who wishes to lose curves, since most of us are trying to slim. She achieved the desired result, and took something like six weeks to do it. She visaed a beauty salon famous for its slimming department. She interviewed the dietition and physical culture expert. Programmes were drawn up, diets worked out, and daily routine arranged. For the benefit of those who wish to lose weight, here Is the routine which was followed with conspicuous success. Diet For First Week First two days (first and second). A glass of fruit juice alternated with a plate of green salad and a glass of cold water every four hours. Second two days (third and fourth) As before, with the addition of a plate of cooked vegetables for lunch and an egg or portion of cream cheese with the salad at dinner-time. Third two days (fifth and sixth). Breakfast: Fruit iuice and fresh fruit. Lunch: Green salad with egg or cream cheese. Three Vita-Weat biscuits. Glass of milk (to include necessary quantity of fat. vitamins and mineral salts). Dinner: Grilled fish or grilled cutlet, with cooked vegetables. Three Vita-Weat biscuits. Fresh fruit or stewed fruit Cup of milk. Seventh Day: As on fifth and sixth days, with the addition of a cereal for breakfast. No sugar in tea or coffee, and as little milk as possible. The following weeks on similar lines with ordinary non-fattening menus, replacing the first two days' fruit juice and salad. On waking, cup of hot water with

the juice of half a lemon. Fifteen minutes' exercise with special twisting and rolling movements. Sample list of four: 1. Lie flat on the back with the knees bent and the feet on the floor. Now twist the knees to the left, rolling them right over so that they touch the floor. Repeat rolling to the right, and touch the floor again. The rolling must be done from the waist, keeping the upper part of the body completely flat. 2. Stand erect with the hands flat at the sides. Bend to the right, sliding the right hand down the right hip and reaching as low as possible. Regain erect position, sliding the right hand up to the hip and the left one down the left leg in the opposite direction. 3. Lie flat on the back and twist the lower part of the body from side to side, with a rolling movement. Keep the shoulder blades flat against the floor meanwhile. 4. Stand erect, legs apart, hands on the hips. Turn trunk quickly, first to the left and then to the right. Continue 12 times. After the exercise a warm bath, followed by a brisk rub dow.. with a rough loofah, and then a reducing lotion patted into the fatty parts and allowed to dry. Breakfast; then afterwards (during the morning) an hour's brick walk. Lunch; a short rest, followed by a round of golf, tennis or another walk, except on two afternoons a week. Before retiring a second application of reducing lotion, to be patted tn again and left to dry. Following this method. Mrs A. lost an average of 31b a week. Her measurements in the first three weeks, were reduced ir the following proportions: Waist, 3J inches; hips, 5 inches.