Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-22
PROPER STEPS
TO REDUCE BY
TRIED EXPERT
DIR. Lulu Hunt Peters Has
Taken Vast Rolls of Fat
OFF Americans.

NEW YORK. June IA woman mas
\ reduced the weight OF the nation four and
Pa half million pounds! That's equiva-
dent to 10000 persons of 15e pounds each.
She is DR.. Lulu Hunt Peters Of Los
Angeles Many pounds overweight. she
set out to come down to normal. She sue
ceeded, wrote a book and passed the Sc
cret on to 10000 others, who lost an
average of thirty pounds.
Would you like to reduce this summer?
Then read the following article.
BY DR.. LULU HUNT PETERS.
Author of "Diet and Health With Key to
the Galleries."
DO you want to reduce?
Then remember
Over-eating is the cause Of overweight
300 times out Of 1000.
We are too fond of food-particularly
sweets. We have not known food values.
As result
TLree-Quarters of the adult population
CT this country are too fat!
Some of them have taken to dieting
without results.
I know l did when I was a little girl.
? was fat and hated it. So I decided to
sut down on nv eating. would go with
sut supper. taking instead
An fee cream soda-more fattening than
the meal!
Yet that is the way many persons diet.
No wonder they can't reduce.
But anybody-no matter how fat he
may be-can lose weight by going at 1t
scientifically. It's simple.
l. Find your ideal weight. To do this,
take your height in bare feet. multiply
the number Of inches over five feet by
5la and add to 10.
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day or two. Drink nothing but water.
!. If you feel that is starting it of too sud
&denly. take a few glasses Of skinned
milk, muttermilk or fruit juice.
3. Exercise. Ten or fifteen minutes a
day Of vigorous setting up exercises are
necessary-besides brisk walking, stair
climbing and active work
1. Take a cold bath every ~day-if you
react well.
5. Keep busy. If your stomach tries
20 remind you that you are hungry-iust
drink some water.
G. Reduce while you sleep. Always re-
tire with your stomach fairly empty.
Z. Count your calories. It's simple.
Here's a list Of popular foods which have
100 calories each:
One large slice Of bread, ons-half inch
thick
One pat Of butter.
One large egg.
One moderate size potato.
Two ounces lean meat.
<nree ounces lean fish.
Three cubes of sugar.
One pound watery egetables-lettuce,
cabbage, radishes, etc.
One large apple, orange or pear.
One quart Recommendations fat
Three ounces Of cream soups.
One and one-eighth inch cube Of
cheese.
Five ounces milk.
Ten ounces skinned or fat-free butter
milk
Ten peanuts.
-Four walnuts
But remember this: one ordinary slice
OF pie has 500 to 400 calorles. one ice
cream soda 500 TO 600 calories, one pound
Of chocolates $500 calories.
8. Balance your diet. See that you get
your calories from:
"a. Some carbohydrates and fats for the
= fuel foods. Cut these down. but not out
b. Many vegetables, especially OF the
teafy type. Scrub clean and eat raw. Dc
the same with fruit.
c Protective foods-milk. and its pro-
ducts, and leafy vegetables on account of
their vitamines and essential salts.
d. Enough protein TO supply your re-
pair needs.
9 Chew as you never chewed before.
Prolonged chewing reduces the appetite
and is beneficial in many ways.
II you want to reduce one-quarter of
a pound a day, cut down 1000 calories
Of food under your maintenance allow
ance. The fat Of the body will make up
the deficit, and you will be reducing.
No reduction would be more rapid
than a pound or two a week-after the
first week
At first the loss will probably be much
greater-10 or II pounds perhaps.
But don't get scared. Stick to Il.
Follow these rules and you are bound
I TO reduce not only your weight but living
n costs, too.
81 One man and wife who followed these
&instructions lost fifty pounds between
4 them and reported a saving Of more
than $50 month on the butchers and
grocer's BILL
Count your calories!
And become a past member OF the F. r.
F.-Fuming Fat Fraternity !-Copyrigh
1922, By NEA Service.