Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-29
Reducing Diet
Must Include
These Foods
BY IDA JEAN KAHN


THIS IS for all of you who
are so overweight that you feel
hopeless about ever getting your
weight down to normal.
There is no question but that
reducing comes harder when
your weight is more than 20 per
cent above the normal. You have
long years of habit to combat.
and habit has tough fibres.
Through habit you have come
to crave all the foods that put
on weight.
Such a craving may 20 deeper,
however. than the liking for
food. 1t may be the sign of a
hidden hunger" created by fall
ure to get some of the vitamins,
minerals or repair materials.
When your system is deprived
of these essentials II cries out
. for them.
Deficient Diet
While this Unsuitable desire for
food is really. the result of the
dietary deficiency. you don't
know that.
All you know is that you can't
seem to get enough to eat. So
you eat more of the foods you
like.
When these are wrong you
still have the deficiency and you
are still hungry for the missing
nutrients.
The first foods to be given
place In your reducing menus
are those which supply protec-
ton and prevent and overcome
any deficiency.
You must have protein in
normal amounts 10 take care Of
wear and tear. Even with meat
rationed you can keep your diet
high in protein by including the
maximum amount of lean meat
you are allowed and by using
cottage cheese or yellow cheese.
eggs, and skim milk or butter
milk.
The cheese and milk also
supply the calcium you need.
Calcium and phosphorus are the
minerals most apt 10 be deficient
in our dietary.
Green Vegetable
Next on the list is a green
lesfy vegetable. You should have
one cooked and one raw every
day. These furnish iron and
Vitamin A.
Because OF the restriction in
butterfat in a low calorie diet,
the green leafy vegetable be-
comes highly important as a
source of Vitamin A.
Another way 10 step up your
Vitamin A intake is 10 have a
yellow vegetable and fruit some
where in the days menu.
Winter squash, carrots, april
cots and peaches are all good.
Sweet potatoes are high in
Vitamin A. but also in calories.)
For Vitamin b, use enriched or
whole grain bread and cereals.
You are going 10 cut calories
for long stretch, and while a
low calorie diet can be adequate
in vitaminS, il cannot be abun-
dant.
A liberal vitamin intake pro-
notes high vitality. So il would
he an advantage TO supplement
your daily menus with one vita
min concentrate furnishing A,
B1. {, d and b.
Shrink Stomseh
When you first cut calories.
you will feel as if you are starv-
ing and that reducing isn't
worth it, But let me promise
you. your appetite can be tanned.
Within a week your stomach
will have adapted itself 10 the
smaller meals and you won't
mind dieting nearly so much.
To hasten the shrinkage of the
stomach. limit the liquid with
the meal-beverage or soup-to
eight ounces.
II you have not already done
so. see your doctor for a thor
ough physical examination. Get
started right.
Here is your basic reducing
diet-the foods that furnish pro-
lection and must be included
every day:
Basic Protective Foods
Cslorie,
orange juice, az or or y grape
fruit, or tomato juice SIS
Egg boiled. poached or scrambled rs
Whole wheat bread, 3 thin slices. OF
whole wheat, 1905 $50
cor the new enriched kind)
Put,er 2 pats. each Z" thick $50
Lean meat. Ash or fowl. 81 or. 400
This should he broiled, baked
or boiled. all fat trimmed of. once