Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-08-05
Health Talks by DR.. Brady
skinny Winnie.

Dear MIR. Brady:
No one derives more pleasure from Your ar
ticlcs than !. does any get less at
tcnton. For you not trying lose
weight. bat rather 10 put it In OF
your articles | read that eat too much
and that II NOR. cheerful outlook could he OBJ
tanned from lighter eating
tary -st"noErapher. This noon, remembering
your good advice. f0rsook my usual boiled
ham and spinach and apple III" and had in
stead, a glass OF milk AMI piece %. bread
and a fruit salad. Now at o'clock have
decided that the lack 81 hot and solid food IL
accountable for my feeling Of fatigue and
lack OF pep. But here's the post will less
solid food and more Of the Hrady harmony
put weight me? Cause I'm sixty-six ana
half inches tall and weigh ia pounds.
Isn't that awful? But how to better It! FL
like ten pounds in tho rish; places, please.
Yours for health and happiness.
SKINNY WINNIE.
There's more truth than poetry in Skinny
Winne's plant; The question nearest every
body's heart SENS TO be- when do We cat?"
Popular Is the guy who give ii short,
snappy satisfactory answer to that question.
y few people, after several years OF 100 per
cent attendance at regular and extra meals
begin rather late 10 Rsk. what do we eat?"
Hut rare, indeed. is the fellow who pauscs
even for moment ask why do we eat?'
II was Horace Fletcher who asked. How do
W" e"t?' and Invented governor in the
form OF "Flctchcrism" TO retard our danger
speed In eating
Many children. who are poorly nourishcd
tunderweisht and. perhaps below par in
vigor) suffer chiefly from excessive speed in
eating. These children are likely to hc ''ncrv-
Gus" peevish. representative and troublesome
to parents and teachers. II Is surprising how
greatly such children benefited by
reasonable application OF Flctcher!sm. Par
cnts do we'll to make an inhexible rule re-
quirinE such children TO remain at the table
not less than twenty minutes. even though
the children gulp down their meals In much
less time They Will learn to take food slow
iy and to nasticate II properly II they find
the rule is unbreakablc for II is hard TO sit
at table many minutes with nothing to do.
Try this the child with lind igcstion'' and
how II works
Possibly Skinny Winnie tries to beat DOGGY
ut luncheon. 1t is n popular custom. lunching
against time. Thousands of folks in Amer-
can cities catching lunch dinner on the
fly, suffer nutritional and digestive disorders
which persist until the eating speed IS mod
Grated Hasty eating-which means Gulping
down food unmasticated or insufftciently mas
ticated--is like the speed mania OF the streets.
chiefly an indulgence Of persons whose time
Is OF small value whose leisure Is too
ample and squandered In inconsequentIal or
unworthy pursuits Big business and profess
sional men somehow manage to find time for
considerable play and time for unhurricd eat
ing-thcy spend their valuable time this way
because they know il pays.
| have a set OF plans and specifications
drawn mp for Skinny Winnie-there are n
great many Of her who should have, whether
they would like not. an additional ten
pounds or SO In the right placcs-and a copy
OF the plans is available to any Skinny Winnie
who may comply with the requirements OF
this department. stamped, self addressed
envelope for the plans.