DOCTORS SENSE DANGER IN VOGUE OF SLENDER FIGURE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17830, 26 April 1926, Page 4

DOCTORS SENSE DANGER IN VOGUE OF SLENDER FIGURE.

NEW YORK, March 1. Thousands of women seeking fashionable slenderness throw away money worthless and often dangerous, says Dr Arthur J. Cramp, director of the Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association. Speaking at the adult weight conference being held by twenty-fivje leading physicians to fix proper weight standards, Dr Cramp said that the vogue of the boyish figure has, during the past few years, given tremor*- % dous impetus to this new form of quackerj'. Practically every ‘fat cure,’ no matter to what type it belongs,” he said, “is exploited under two specific claims; first, that those who use it do not need to diet; second, that they need not exircise. Dr Lewellys F. Barker, of Johns Hopkins University, praised the motives of persons w’ho under-nourished themselves. They have “a laudable desire for beauty,” he said, and are willing to curb their appetites to attain their ideal.