Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17

TOO FAT? Join
REDUCING Class
fSixty-day Experiment Being
Conducted in Chica-
go may Become
Popular.
LOSE IN WEIGHT
.OSE IN WEIGHT
Diet and Exercise Necessary
to Regain Youthful
Figure.
(By The Associated Press.)

Chicago, ILL.,, May 14.-Fat persons
Iall over the United States are watch
ling with great interest the slXty-day
experiment in reducing weight when
is being conducted here under the SUI
%lpervisiOn of DR.. John Dill Robertson,
city health commissioner. Inquiries al
ready received here suggest the prOba-
bility that if the Chicago experiment
is successful it may be tried i'll other
communities.
Success reported in the first week
when the average weight OF the Il wo-
men composing the first class was re-
duced by 30 pounds has prompted the
Organization of other classes III this
lefty and altogether more than 200 per-
SONS here are trying to see how rapid
Ily they can regain their youthful fig
ures.
Diet and Exercise.
The leaders of the fat elimination
~c0nte;t here aver that the experiment
can be tried by anyone suffering from
a surplus of ~adveTdupois. Reason
able exercise and a strictly controlled
diet constitute two of the chief features
of the Chicago experiment.
The daily menus Of the reducing class
|are prepared by Miss Ruth Wilbar, of
the health commissioners training
IschOol for nurses, who believes this
supervision of diet to be essential to
success. Those ambitious to become
slim are permitted to have lean meat
but Once a day and potatoes are Tor
hidden. If n is hungry between
meals Miss Wilbar suggests that Il
glass Of water will satisfy that empty
feeling"
The Menu.
Here is a typical menu prepared by
Miss Wilbar for II day: -.
BreakfaSt-One medium apple, one
lesg, one slice of toast, one cup OF cot
fee with one and a half tablespoons OF
SKINNED milk instead of cream.
10 30 a. m.-One-half cup of bullion
with one cracker.
Luncheon-Mcdium serving Of lean
cold roast beef, two thin slices of rye
dread; lettuce and cottage cheese
salad: two and one-half tablespoons,
Iful of French dressing tea with lemon
one cracker.
Dinner-Large serving Of boiled cod
with lemon; large serving OF plain
califlOwer; one scant teaspoon OF but
ter; lettuce salad or celery; One-half
an orange; black coffee.
10: 80 D.. m.-One-half cup Of hot
skim milk.
Each of the women is expected to
work IN hour a day in her garden-if
she has Il ,garden-otherwise to take
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Report Daily.
Daily the women report by Gle
phone and receive instruction, including
a diet for the following day. On Thurs
day of each week they report at the
|city hall and are weighed, and the
weeks loss or gain recorded on their
charts.
The "a women i'm the first class ave
LACED in weight at the start of the ex-
pertinent, 2Ol.66 pounds, 1888 pounds
more than their average normal
weight, and DIR. Robertson says he eX-
pects to take approximately 40 Of those
pounds from each woman.
Head" The Class.
| The leader of the class is Miss Nellie
leonard, age %, Il typist, who tipped
1.-THE scales ut 323 pounds nut lost elSnt
pounds in the first seven days DR..
Robertson figured her normal weight ut
141 pounds.
Miss Catherine Scott, age %, also
typiSt, is the baby of class she
weighed i'm at 1861 and her normal
weight was calculated at 121. Miss
Scott stands just Il half-inch above
five feet.
The anti-fat crusade is Il serious ven
ture. DIR. Robertson says, aimed to
point the dangers and discomfOrts of
excess weight and show the ease with
which it can be eliminated.