Curbes are Fashionable

Southland Times, Issue 20641, 13 November 1928, Page 13

Curbes are Fashionable

It has come at last! Not content with leading thousands of women into the ways of sugarless tea and cakeless afternoons, and deploring by look and gesture the mere existence of plump women, scientists have now put their seal on the philosophy of those women who cannot alter their ounces, says an authority. It doesn’t matter what you eat or what you deny yourself, if nature intended you to be fat, there’s an end to it, and not all the liquid days can take away one tiny ounce of it. Dr Francis Benedict, of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, has been testing this business of diet and sugars. He says that some people—those who are inclined to put on flesh at the slightest provocation—need only eat an extra pat of butter or two extra lumps of sugar a day to add 81b. to the weight in the year. But in spite of all his tests Dr. Benedict cannot tell why some people remain thin and others get fat. Scientists, while hinting that differences in the glands are at the bottom of it all, are emphatic on the point that the woman with curves has a far better chance in illness than the perambulating exclamation mark. As a warning to those who persist in diet days, the fashion of semi-starvation is said to have produced in America a new brand of anaemia which results in spasms of blindness. Are all these facts contributing causes to the announcement that curves are returning to fashion ?