New Britain herald., 1929-08-09

country the tuberculosis rates fo' young girls rose in most of the large cities of our country and there was an increasing amount of loss of time ! from work because of all sorts of minor ailments.
 The 1S-day Hollywood diet is vaunted as the result of five years of study of French and American pn5. scians. It is said ito be perfectly | harmless for those in normal health. | Those not in health are warned to consult physician before trying the diet. Better consult a physician any way to find out if you are in normal health before trying any weight re- 1 duction scheme.
 An Easy Sort of Job
 If the French and American phy- sicians spent five years working out this diet, the boys wasted a lot Of time. Any competent American die tition could have figured out as 1 good a combination in A hours. i Let us anaylze the first three days of the 1S-day system.
 First Day
 Breakfast: One half grapefruit. Coffee.
 Lunch: One half grapefruit, 1 egg. E slices cucumber, l slice Melba toast, tea or coffee.
 Dinner: Two eggs. 1 tomato. one half head lettuce, one half grape fruit, coffee.
 second Day
 Breakfast: One half grapefruit Coffee.
 Lunch: Oncorange, 1 egg, lettuce 1 slice Melba toast, tea.
 Dinner: Broiled steak (plain) one half head lettuce. tomato, one half grapefruit, tea or coffee.
 Third Day
 Rroakfast One-half grapefruit Coffee.
 Lunch: Onc-half grapefruit, egg. lettuce, slices cucumber, tea or coffee.
 Dinncr: One lamb chop (triu fat before cookinG). l cgG, rad ishes. olives, one half grapefruit lettuce, lea or coffee.
 The Melba toast, it may be cX- plained is merely very thinly cu' bread toasted in slow oven. One-half grapefruit provides abou one hundred calories, some vitamir A. more vitamin B and still more ritamin c. Its general effect in the body is alkaline. It also provide: some mineral salts. A smaller grapefruit will give 75 calories. Tn; coffee. if taken without cream o sugar. as it should be on reducing diet. provides little or nothing OK Cept the stimulation of it's caffein' content, about F grains to Cact cup.
 One esG provides "a calorics; i is rich in vitamin A and l5 and con tainS considerable D. The si' slices of cucumber give 10 calories some mineral salts, some Vitamin I and r. The Mclba toast, represent ing some very dry bread. will pro Nllt, utptlIlHS OH Jus SlZt dllt weight. anywhere from 10 to 10' Calories. The tomato is rich in vita min A and B and C as is also thu lettuce. The latter aids by the pro vision of enough rouGhaGc for th' bowels 10 have something 10 worl upon.
 Meat Is Valuable
 A half of a small head of lettuc provides 30 calories and the tomato outside of it's vitamin and mincra salt content is mostly flaVoring mat ter and water. The small piece 0 meat with the fat removed mean: about 15O 10 200 Calorics. Th' radishes are helpful for spice ant variety.
 Here obviously is a dict whicl provides well under 1000 Calorie per day. Most of LIS eat ordinaril' around 5000 calrics. on such die with the average amount of worl one is bound to lose weight. pcrhap too rapidly. The best authoritio insist that any loss over two pound per week for the average person 1 not hcalthful
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