The Washington times., 1936-11-19
By Wrong /
By IDA JEAN KAHN

in reducing comes from losing
an inadequate diet, reducing V
in some cases, reducing too far
Fast reducing is probably the
worst offender, for it necessarily
means a diet insufficient for basic
needs and, moreover, imposes too
great a psychological strain on the
reducer. There is no safe rapid
reducing system.
Two pounds is as much as you
should lose in an week, and an
average of one pound per week is
advised. After all, one pound a
week IS SO pounds in a year! In
all instances medical advice is in
dicated.
You have everything to lose by
fast reducing and nothing to gain
why take the risk? You lose
your disposition. the roses in your
cheeks, and your pep, with moth
ing to show for it but fat lady's
miSfit skin.
A reducing diet must be guam
titatively and qualitatively correct,
for there is point which the
calories cannot safely be reduced.
The internal work Of the body
goes on all the time-respiration,
heart beat, and maintenance of
muscle tone-and all that takes
calories.
For this reason, no reducing
diet should be brought below the
basal requirements, which average
1000 to 1,500 calories per day.
No reducing diet should contain
less than 1000 calorieS per day,
and the average reducing diet is
1900 calories.
OF course, if you are under five
feet tall, your normal calorie re-
quirement is less than average;
therefore, your reducing calorieS
are less. This is explained in the
leaf1et Pointers to Slimness."
The limitation in a reducing
diet must be in calories only. The
protective elements are needed in
the same amounts when a person
is reducing as at any other time.
The average reducing diet is apt
to be barely adequate in protein
and iron, and deficient in calcium.
You cannot just leave a food
out of the menu because you con-
slider it fattening. Remember, any
food is fattening if it exceeds
your daily calorie requirements,
and no food is fattening If it is
within the calorie limit.
Reducing without benefit Of
exercise is a mistake, for exercises
not only improve your figure by
taking the fat off the dispropor-
tionate places, but discourage a re-
turn Of the adipose tissue.
Extreme lines are never flatter-
ing to any figure and reducing too
far is always serious. Structure
must be taken into account. While
the small-boned girl will look best
with streamlines, the very large
boned person may look emaciated
at a weight which would be con-
sidered normal.
Then, too, if you are past middle
age, too great a weight loss is not
always advisable. When your
doctor says you have reduced far
enough, stop-even though you
may think you are still too fat!
Keep in mind that a gradual
loss of pounds through a balanced
menu, plus exercise, is the healthy
way to a good figure. Reducing
can mean improved health and a
better figure, or impaired health
and a bad disposition. It all de-
pends on the method.
BALANCED REDUCING MENU
Galleries
Orange Juice, II glass. ss.............. so
Toast. 2 thin slices (whOle wheaD.. 100
Butter, " pat. ................... so
Coffee. / teaspoon cream, 1 rounded
teaspoon sugar. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. so
$50
Luncheon
Toasted. scrambled egg sandwich
no butter on bread. d............... $50
spiCed appleaauCe, y cup. 100
Glass skinned milk k.....,..,.... 80
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4SO
Dinner
Goldfish cakes, 21a-inch diameter -. $50
String beans, 1 cup. up................. 80
Butter u pat. ...........,...,.. so
ColdsIaw (vinegar) Observation-Disclosures. 25
Fresh fruit cup. Observation-Disclosures. $50
Demi-tasse .....................
sos
Total Galleries for day ........ 1,185
Your Dietitian,
IDA JEAN KAHN