Evening star., 1924-03-28

| s,sx.rS 20 readers questions regarding diet
, vii! lie given by wmifred stuart dpts. ioo i's,
| suf 'rlist writer and lecturer on nutrltIi'
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4 Winifred Stuart Gibbs, 81 West ""'a s'rec''
| New York city
! 7 am eighteen years old, five feet one
inch tall and weigh 12s pounds. In
! other words, ! am more than ten
| hounds overweight You can prob
! ably realize what this means to
| girl of my age. 1 can't wear pretty
| clothes to advantage and always look
| too fat" 1 am in perfect health and
! feel sure that / can lose twenty
| hounds without harm to myself. i
appeal to you. Won't you please help
| me? for, oh. how L envy my slender
! sisters:-B. H
To begin with, you may be sur
priSed if l advise you not to worry
| about being ten pounds overweight
In fact, a girl of your age is much
better off to be a little over normal.
l say this in spite of what You tell
me about being worried over your
personal appearance. You say that
you are in perfect health and L am
going to advise you very strongly
not to try to lose anything.
Lest you think that ] am unsym-
pathetic, however, l will tell you a
secret. / think it is more than pos
sible that if you make 1t business
to follow systematically some good
course of exercises you will find your
obnoxious pounds going away.
You must realize that you are just
at the age when you need all your
streng 9Th and energy, and 1t is much
better to keep your perfect health
freh air and regular meals than to
try to reduce.
One word of caution Ask your
mother or your teacher or your ply
sician or some one else who knows
you to help you to decide about your
exercises, otherwise you may over
do this and defeat your own purpose
Eat a sensible diet of plain food
at very regular meal times. Do not
touch tea or coffee; drink a pint or
so of milk a day; have a salad OF
| fresh vegetables once a day; baked
or mashed potato once a day and al
least one cooked vegetable besides
For your desserts try hom emade
ices and ice creams, or gelatin pud-
dings. or rice, or other fruit pud-
Z y
desserts for later years.
Eat stale bread, toasted: bran muf-
fins and ready-cooked cereals, such
as fakes, puffed or shielded varieties
Let me hear from you again if
can be OF further service
have had bad stomach for year.
and bilious headaches every two OF
three weeks. with much gas all the
time I am very thin and have
la constant ringing in my ears
that comes. am told, from a nervous
| condition. / wish a fattening menl
and one to nourish the nerves also
Is honey all right? I like dates, raj
bined with? Is pure cream better
than whole milk?
! Replying to your letter Of February
18th, | will give you what sugges
tions can, but you will realize, l an
/ sure, that at a distance I cannot dC
suggestions. If / were where l coulC
see you every day it would be another
matter.
| First. about the ringing in you,
come simply from q temporary thick
ening of the wax. This is very sim
pie problem and any good ear special
ist will relieve you at once. OF course
this ringing does come sometimes
from Indigestion; at least it is mad'
chances are that the wax thickenins
has something to do with it
| AS to the fattening diet, here agair
cannot advise you very Intelligent!
| without knowing you better. In gen
eral, pure cream is more easily di
gested than milk, although, of course
it cannot be continued over so long {
| time without causing intestinal indi
| geStion. Honey is very wholesom
| il it does not cause irritation to tn,
| stomach.
l Dates, figs and raisins may b,
] chopped and combined With tn,