SENSIBLE SLIMMING.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19431, 4 December 1934, Page 5

SENSIBLE SLIMMING.

Many women, in their anxiety to be slim, cut down their food until .they are almost on a starvation diet. Certainly hv this means, they get thin, but they also become "run down," nervy, and easily tired and irritable, and thin faces grow old-looking and lined.

Purely it is better to look plump and happy than thin and miserable-. The body needs certain foods if it is to be kept in good condition. To cut out all fats, starch and sugar is most unwise. One can drastically reduce the amount, of starch and omit all potatoes, white bread and cereals from one’s diet and cut down the amount^of sugar, but a certain quantity is essential. If one wants to be healthy and have sound nerves, then one cannot afford not. to eat butter, cream, and eggs and drink milk. Fat meat and bacon, suet puddings and fatly kinds of fish should be avoided, so should soups and slews, sauces, gravies, pastries, rich cakes and puddings, chocolates, cocoa ami alcohol, and dried vegetables such as peas and beans and lentils. If you want in be slim, drink lols of wafer and fruit drinks, but remember to take them between meals, nof with food. Orangeade and lemonade are most beneficial, and barley water, weak fra, and milk coffee may also be taken. Instead of slewed fruit, plenty of raw fruit, especially apples, oranges and grapefruits should lie ca I on. Dry toasl is good instead of bread, and brown bread is considered preferable lo white, and crisp, dry biscuits are excellent.