Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13

Men ana women. especially women in
their eagerness Ia reduce have mot
stopped To consider whether il was
wise or safe To take off the pound of
flesh. They have been determined
apparently. to he their own ShyluckS,
Where this ~eXtrcme reducing has
been undertaken without the advice
and supervision Of physicians the. re-
suit has sometimes been not beauty
but death. Women have pounded and
rolled. dieted and drugged themselves.
and submitted To fortunes rivaling
| those of the Inquisitiou~-all I'm the
search for beauty. They have for
gotten that beauty is also dependent
or health, and have not stopped 10
count the cost.
The conference brought to light any
| number of instances tending to prove
that certain strenuous reducing meth.
DDS have resulted in serious loss NJ
vitality, tuberculosis and other fatal
diseases. and have deprived women
of the privilege of motherhood.
The conference also agreed that a
vast number Of American women 10.
day are either under or over normal
weight: that normal weight Is depend.
ent on several sets of measurements
which heretofore have not been con
sidersd so important, such "a the
| length of the spine the size of the
! torso. the measurements of bust, hips
arms. etc: that Ii il most unwise for
any man or woman TO tamper with
present weight without thorough
| medical examination at the beginning
and constant medical advice from the
doctor while reducing or gaining.
OVERWEIGHT and underweight
fly two distinct sets OF danger
signals and lead to two equally un-
| pleasant destinations. The confer
ence expressed the opinion that IN
derweight is more dangerous before
80 years of age and overweight after
30. A good rule TO follow might he
II you have been skinny" until you
are 80 and have escaped the dangers
Of being too thin. do not worry or
attempt to put on flesh after that
age. Life insurance companies have
long recognized that the overweight
man or woman of middle age might
be good -natured. but he was poor
risk They lost money on him
because he did not. as a general thing.
| live to pay dividends as long as his
| thinner sister or brother. Recently
| they have come to the conclusion that
| the thin young person Is equally I'M
| profitable to them.
| The entire question boils itself down
to this simple rule: Before YOU start
| to interfere with your present bodily
| balance Of flesh, fat and bone. make
| sure, with the best advice obtainable,
| that your present condition Is not the
best for you. What is normal for
the woman next door might be a bur
den to you, and what is normal" for
you might soon send her to the land
| of no returning.
| What the specialists at the adult
weight conference already knew about
weight control. what they learned
from each other at the conference and
what the committees appointed by
them discovered has been put into
| series of articles. Among various
subjects. these articles will discuss
what effect dieting has on the skin.
the possibilities and dangers of beauty
| opera tons. the relation of your weight
to your nerves and your disposition,
how the much discussed glands" in
| fiuence your weight and how to re-
duce to any desired weight without
injury to health. good looks or pocket
book and without discomfort while
reducing or adding weight.
The final warning of the adult
weight conference to American -wom-
en-, especially those in the GREATNESS
search for beauty. is: DO not blindly
follow beauty ideals that endanger
your health and even your chances
for motherhood. Before you roll off
or starve off or steam off that pound
of flesh find out whether you shouldn't
have found out, follow the advice Of
medical science rather than pin your
faith to a fad