The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-20
1900 )
HOW TO REDUCE
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| There Is only one sane. scientific method
of reducing; that is a graduated diet and
exercises What these should be de-
Ponds upon your physical condition and
the distribution Of the excess fat.
The body Il built Of the food assimiliat-
ed. 1t throws OF the food elements in
waste: 1t consumes them in exercise and
in tho chemical activity necessary to
| carry on the regular work Of digestion,
assimilation. etc. II your digestion Ia
normal, and you eat more fattening
foods than you consume in muscular ex-
| ercise. and in the chemical changes
which are constantly going on in the
| body. you store up the excess; in other
| words. you grow fat"
A certain amount of fat is required to
keep up the body heat daily. but you
regulate the excess by exercises. and one
would need to exercise very vigorously to
reduce through exercise alone II more
fat, starches and sugars are consumed
than are required for regular heat
II you take drugs to reduce. you are
apt to weaken the action Of the heart
or disturb your digestion. while rubber
garments weaken muscles about the
vital organs and interfere with their
development Besides. reduction by these
means Is not permanent. for you have not
removed the cause.
Excess of flesh is often due to some
digestive disturbance or to weak nerves.
which do not strongly direct tire body
forces. Indeed, too much flesh is often
due Just as much to an abnormal condi-
ton Of the digestive system as Is too
little flesh. Therefore the right kind OF
physical culture for reduction must work
with the digestive system as well as
with the actual reduction of the fat. II
you will reduce to stay reduced.
The organs and nerves must be
strengthened so as to digest and absorb
the fats and proteids normally II one
is to correct the habit Of fat II you
depend upon exercise for the extremity
muscles alone for reduction. such as
walking, you will be apt to put on fat
more quickly after you cease to exercise
A heshy person does not always eat an
abnormal amount. Indeed. many thin
people eat more than the fieshy ones.
Many women. beautiful in character.
express a predominance Of physical over
the mental and moral simply because
Of a lack Of knowledge Of how to con-
troll and carry their flesh. Women are
Of artistic temperament and love to be
surrounded by the beautiful. but q
woman with aprotruding abdomen. over
large busts or hips, first calls our at
tention to her physical being rather than
to the character Of woman as q whole.
A person who carries from twenty to
fifty pounds Of extra weight has my
sympathy. We are apt to regard such a
one as healthy, yet the fat SO presses
upon nerve centers and upon lungs and
heart that one has little reserve strength
and needs as much sympathy a. the
thin and angular one.
Nervousness and anaemia point to q
condition for which reduction exercise
and a special diet are beneficial
II you reduce by diet alone the fat
may go from just the part you wish to
keep plump. Your diet would. Of neces-
sity, be rigorous to reduce by diet alone
and unless carefully supervised you might
not keep up a balanced ration.
TIL safest and best way Is to cut down
the food in quantity and regulate the
quality 80 as not to supply more than the
system requires for its daily mechanism
and then to gradually use up the surplus
by exercise. This exercise should be d.
rected to the location of the excess.
One can call upon about half a
pound Of fat stored in the body each day.
IL nerves and blood conditions are right