Evening star., 1924-07-18

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of our readers for any unavoidable delay.
The number of letters received is large
Wn1sd 1h nsh g'nar, take b5s its ~ we.f Aad s,i
street. New York City.
! am 1915 years of age, feet ~
inches in height and weigh 1853
pounds. Will you please tell me
about how much I should weigh and
what I can do to reduce to my nor
NAL weight M. X.
Replying to your letter of June 4.
you should weigh between 12S and 131
pounds. AS to reducing, if you have
good strong heart l should think
that your best hope lies in exercise.
OF course, your diet should be right,
but exercises will help wonderfully.
First. as to your food, try a glass
of fruit juice before breakfast, fresh
fruit with bran mullins and Sereal
coffee for breakfast.
Luncheon of bulky vegetables. all
you want of them. This means let
tuce, cabbage, carrots, beets, string
beans and turnips. Eat bran bread
with only little butter. and for a
beverage try another glass of gela-
tine fruit juice.
For dinner. soup and eat lean roast
beef or lamb or plain broiled steak
without fat, more vegetables and a
dessert of fresh fruit.
Without knowing more about your
physical condition 1 cannot give any
more detailed suggestions in this, but
the above diet is a good starting
point.
Now, as to the exercise: AS I said
above, If your are perfectly normal,
walk at least three miles a day, work
ing up to four. Exercise at out-of-
door games all you can without in
dulging in excessive athletics.
Pay very close attention to the
bowels, and if the above diet does not
entirely eliminate constipation add a
daily dose of mineral oil until you
are sure of perfect intestinal cleanli-
ness.
The diet which 1 have given you
needs more bodybuilding or protein
foods. but as I have already said, I
cannot advise you as to quantity, ETC.,
without knowing more about you
am interested in your recines
which read about in the paper. Will
you please send me copy?-J. G.. M
In replying to your request of June
5, | have no published collection of
recipes of my own at present am
expecting to get out a revised copy
of my book on recipes some day and
will see that you have a copy.
Will you kindly send me a diet for
rheumatism?
Replying to your request for diet
for rheumatism, 1 am making the
following suggestions:
1t may very possibly be that con-
stipation has something to do with
your trouble. I advise you to keep
enema at first if necessary.
A laxative food should be used
tageous to use proportion of milk
sugar with lacto-dextron. This is a
concentrated food, which may be OBJ
tained at your druggist. but I advise
you SoFors to hssnn,u ask yGur physician about It
diet should be as simple as possible
and made up of foods that do not
putrefy in the intestines. For ex-
ample, vegetable soups, tomatoes,
shredded cabbage and carrots, olives.
oatmeal, shredded cereal, graham
bread, gluten mullins, bran mullins,
fruit juices, matted milk, buttermiik,
fruit gelatins, fruit ices, prunes,
dates. figs, raisins, cabbage and cot
tage cheese.
At distance I can make only
general suggestions, but if you, will
talk this over with your physician
you may find that some of these sug-
gestions will be of service.
Am coming to you with q problem
which is a source of continual worry
to me and will be deeply grateful
for your advice. My little boy, four
years old, had sick spell at Christ
mas time which was diagnosed as i'm
testinal indigestion or poisoning.
since recovering from that he has at
intervals of about three weeks been
passing mucus in the bowel move
ment. These attacks occur about
three weeks apart almost regularly