The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-14

cup Of black coffee. The grape
fruit is about so calories and the
coffee none.
At lunch there are two toma-
toes (about 20 Galleries apiece),
and a chicken sandwich on rye
bread with no butter (about $50
calories).
For dinner there is q good-sized
steak; how many calories that is,
is hard to say because the amount
Of the steak and especially the
amount Of fat is not specified.
Nothing is said about removing
the fat on the steak, which should
be done for a real reducing diet.
But the steak is at least $50 cal
cries. Besides the steak, you get .
stalk Of celery 5 calories), to-
mato and endive salad with no
dressing (25 calories) and another
half grapefruit $50 calories).
The days total is 4S0 calories
which should reduce anyone. A
reducing diet Of 1000 calories a
day is in my opinion safer. /
don't think anyone should 20 for
any length of time on reducing
diets of 300 to 500 Galleries.
Short Reducing Period
Furthermore, nire days seems
to me too short for satisfactory
and healthy reduction. 1t has
been proved that when caloric in
take is suddenly reduced, one does
not lose weight gradually; the
weight may remain the same for
a week or more, and then there is
q sudden water loss and q good
deal of weight is lost in one day.
That is why I prefer a three
weeks period or a forty-day Len
ten period.
The authors Of the nine-day-
wonder-diet say that meat is the
magic that does it. While eating
meat you will never feel weak, so
they say. The high protein steps
up the body metabolism and burns
up fat. Of course it is perfectly
true that meat has what is called
high specific dynamic energy in
body economy, but whether it
burns fat or not is another ques-
ton. Meat, however, was the
staple Of the Hollywood diet,
popular few years ago.
Well Distributed vitamins
The diet contains vitamins well
distributed, which is fundamen-
tai requirement Of any diet. There
is Vitamin A in carrots, B in eggs
and rye bread, c in tomatoes and
grapefruit, d in cheese (?), E in
lettuce. Meat itself must have q
lot Of vitamins, even some we don't
know about yet.
I think the diet could justly
be criticised on the basis Of mon
otony. Grapefruit and coffee every
day for breakfast resourceful
housekeeper could think of some
thing else than that. And in the
first days diet which | outlined
above there was grapefruit also
for dessert for dinner, and two to-
matoes for lunch and one in the
salad for dinner. That is plung-
ing pretty hard on grapefruit and
tomatoes.
However these are minor mat
ters and easy to fix. Substitute
any citrus fruit for grapefruit
and any green vegetable for the
tomato and it works just as well.
The nine-day-wonder-diet will GER
tainly reduce you provided you
follow ito the letter.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A. D. B.:-"I notice that when
ever my baby "a little over .
month old) cries very hard for .
while she spits up her milk. Why
does she do this?"
Answer. Repatriation has
practically 100 per cent Incl
dence with babies. They all do
some Of it. The crying is accom-
panied by contractions Of the dia-
phragm which press the milk out
Of the stomach into the throat. 1t
is not doing any harm if the baby
is gaining weight.