The Washington times., 1928-06-22
Expert Advises
Overweight
Women
By Maria b. TIA
Prlma Donna Of - Metropolitan
Opera Company. -sle Of the
Most Beautiful Women
OF the Day.

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Most Beautiful Women
OF the Day.
slow shall grow thin?" Cant
You give me a quick, sure
method"
These questions are asked nearly
as often today as in past seasons
when flatness and angularity were
the fashion.
The ''sveite," well-rounded. yet
slender figure without a. bone
showing, is acknowledged today
by fashion, as it always has been
by classic art. to be the perfect
feminine figure. Healthy, we'll
exercised muscles must underlie
this symmetrical figure-muscles
padded with firm tissue neither
too fat nor too thin, as healthy
muscles always are.
For this reason diet alone is
not enough to bring about the
rounded slenderness that is the
mode. Exercise is needed as well.
IL you must reduce very quickly,
do so, / beg of you, under the
personal supervision Of your own
physician who understands your
case, else you may undermine
your health, affect your heart
iniurfously. even endanger your
life by enthusiastic but misguided
efforts.
When you hear Of women who
lost seven or eight pounds in one
week, resolve that you will not
follow their example. It is not
healthful to lose more than three
pounds weekly. And the sure,
safe method is that which nature
dictates wholesome, plain food
and normal exercise, not merely
for one week or month, but
always.
FsWhat!'' I can hear some over
plump person exclaim. Shall l
have to exercise and diet always
to keep thin?"
why notp' is my reply. DO
you not expect to take baths all
your life to keep clean?" Normal
living is not a hardship.
As a matter OF fact, plain food
{ IN well balanced meals. together
with abundant exercise. make up
q pleasant regime and they will
keep you feeling and looking de-
lightfully fit and well.
Your fI1ree-mile daily walk, your
10 minutes of accurate, energetic
exercise, mornings. followed by a
bath and rundown, your swim or
tennis or golf or croquet daily or
Week-ends, your diet of fruit, fresh
vegetables, milk, whole-Wheat
bread and butter with just a little
lean meat or fish each day and
only one sweet-all this consti-
tutes q Tar happier manner of liv.
ing than physical laziness and
oyer-indulgence In rich food.
Here are four typical exercises
which timber most Of the muscles
of, the body and will go far to-
ward warding off fat IL you prac.
tice them persistently, accurately
and energetically every morning:
Stand straight. with your weight
over the balls Of your feet, your
back and neck erect. Try to make
your elbows meet in the back. Re
peat this exercise 10 times the
first week, after that 90 times
daily. It should Danish fat from
the back.
With your hands on your hips,
fingers toward the back. lean for
ward and describe a circle with
your upper body by rotating your
trunk on your waist as. axis 10
times to the right, then 10 times
TO the left.
Stand straight, lift your arms
over your head. then touch the
floor, without bending your knees.
20 times.
Lie flat on your back and hug
your knees to your chest with
your arms 10 times. These four
exercises. together with a mod
erately reducing diet, plenty Of
water taken internally and ex.
ternally and your daily walk
should keep you slim. supple.
clear Of skin and full of pep.