Americus times-recorder., 1920-05-04
zoo IN CLASSES
TO REDUCE FAT
6O-Day Chicago Expert
ment Being Watched
With Interest

CHICAGO, May 4.-Fat persons
all over the United States are watch
ing with great interest the sixty-day
experiment in reducing weight which
lis being conducted here under the
supervision Of DR.. John Hill Robert
son, city health commissioner. In
quiries already received here suggest
the probability that if the Chicago
experiment is successful it may be
tried in other communities.
Success reported in the first week
when The average weight of the "a
women composing the first class was
reduced by 80 pounds has prompted
the organization of other classes in
this city and altogether more than
200 persons here are trying to see
how rapidly they can regain their
youthful figures.
The leaders of the fat elimination
contest here aver that the experiment
can be tried by anyone suffering
from surplus of adverdupols. Rea-
sonable exercise and a strictly con
trolled diet constitute two of the chief
features of the Chicago experiment
The daily menus of the reducing
are prepared by Miss Ruth Wilbar, of
the Health Commissioners training
school for nurses, who believes this
supervision of diet to be essential to
success. These ambitious to become
slim are permitted to have lean meat
but once a day and potatoes are for
bidden. If one is hungry between
meals Miss Wilbar suggests that a
glass of water will satisfy that "emp-
tv feeling"
Typical Menu.
Here is a typical menu prepared
by Miss Wilbar for one day:
Breakfast.-On medium apple,
one egg, one slice of toast, one cup
of coffee with one and q half table
spoons of skinned milk instead of
cream.
1920 a.m.-One-half cup of bouil-
Ion with one cracker.
Medium serving of
lean cold roast beef; two thin slices
Of rye bread; lettuce and cottage
cheese salad; two and one-half table
spoonsful of French dressing; tea
with lemon; one cracker.
Dinner-Large serving of boiled
cod with lemon; large serving of
plain caulifower; one scant teaspoon
Of butter; lettuce salad or celery;
one-half an orange; black coffee.
1890 p.m.-One-half cup hot skim
milk.
Each of the women is expected to
work an hour day in her garden
if she has a garden-otherwise to
take long walks and setting up eXer-
cises.
Daily the women report by tele-
phone and receive instructions, in
Guiding a diet for the following day.
On Thursday Of each week they re-
port at the city hall and are weigh
ed, and the weeks loss-or gain-re
corded on their charts.
The "a women in the first class av-
eraged in weight at the start of the
experiment, 201.66 pounds, 65.83
pounds more than their average nor
NAL weight, and DR.. Robertson says
he expects to take approximately 40
of those pounds from each woman.
The leader of the class IS Mrs. Mel
lie Leonard, aged 80, a typist, who
tipped the scales at 323 pounds but
lost eight pounds in the first seven
days. DR.. Robertson figured her nor
NAL weight at 141 pounds.
Miss Catherine Scott, aged %,
also a typist, is the 'baby of the
Glass; she weighed in at 166 1-2
pounds and her normal weight was
calculated at 121. Miss Scott stands
just half-in above five feet.
The anti-fate crusade is a serious
venture, DR.. Robertson says, aimed
to point the dangers and discomforts
of excess weight and show the ease
with which it can be eliminated.