The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04

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 PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE ''
 WHAT! NO MILK?
 am following the regimen out lined in your pamphlet CHow to Lose Weight"-mailed on request if you provide a stamped envelope bearing your address-please do not use a clipping of this item in lieu of your requesD and l am getting results slowly .. IS. l. FD
 The correspondent does not say how much he or she has reduced in body weight or bulk or measure ments or both in a month. but from the correspondents letter l infer that he or she, like most obese, IS disappointed if the stacker flesh does not melt away at, least ten times as fast as it accumulated III the first place. That childish wish
 flor magical reduction to or near ly to the ideal by eleven o'clock next week-is the bait that catches so many suckers for eighteen-day diets and similar Hollywood hokum.
 Take it easy, folks. Remember, I'm just a plodding door-to-door practitioner, not an eminent speci- alist not a food specialist not a "diet specialist, just an ordinary doctor. If you follow the regimen, plan, program. routine or diet in- structions I give in the pamphlet mentioned you may hope to reduce at the rate of a pound or two week, some weeks and in some in- stances perhaps from two to five pounds. depending on your condi- tion and the degree to which you adhere to the instructions.
 If the prospect of reducing 6 pound or two or even three pounds week does not appeal to you. then don't write now, fatty, but I'm afraid your case Is hopeless.
 The correspondent continues: How about whole milk? Is
 milk fattening? (S. I. F. A glassful Chalf pinD of milk yields 160 calories, compared with a lamb chop 300 calories, an apple 100 calories. an egg 75 calories, four ounces lone fourth pound of roast beef 300 calories, teaspoon full of sugar 30 calories. a small potato 100 calories or a nut fudge sundae 40 calories. A glassful of buttermilH yields 90 calories or skim milk (milk from which cream has been removed), or separator milk Gnilk remaining after fat has been removed by the separator. Both buttermilk and skim milk or separator milk are thus just half ss l nouriShing as whole milk, so far as calories go, but in mineral nutrients and vitamins (B-complex and par ticularly B2, G or ribohavin, they are virtually equivalent to whole fresh milk in the diet.
 l Is milk fattening? The answer is yes and no and/or either. II would be hard to get fat on diet of milk alone-it is too bulky-even 5000 calories 8 day, which many | persons require for maintenance of normal weight and strength, would call for consumption of more than a gallon of milk.
 On the other hand, as you will find in the pamphlet How to Gain | Weight copy send stamped | envelope bearing your address, but do not use 8 clipping in lieu oi your request-any one who will take a pint of milk or even glassful (half -pint) with a slice of whole wheat bread and butter or oleomar- ] garine with or without sugar or jelly or marmalsde or jom, each night at bedtime. will readily put on from ten to twenty pounds in year This bedtime snack, of course, is supplementary to the ordinary daily meals.
 Skin, Nails and Hair
 I am 65 year old, and for the past several years my skin, nails and hair have seemed to get olo faster than I do. tMrs. c. E.) AnsWer-Nutritiona! deficiency = particularly deficiency of vitamil B-compleX and vitamin D. How tc correct it is told in Young Folks and Old Folks"--for CODY send stamped self addressed envelope. ThrOWback
 One girl claimed that if there i> even trace os co,ored blood in the family there IS always a chance, even after ten generations, of the birth of a colored child to white parents. "a. n Answers-But it just doesn't nap- pen-except in old wives tales and the imagination of ignorant people. Dryness of the Skin
 Is there anything to overcome ! dryness of the skin? I use no oils or salad dressings and I dislike butter. thought. Mrs. L. D. R) Answer-Tollow the instructions in the chapter on Xerosis or Dry Skin in the booklet Save Your Skin'-copy mailed on request if you increase twenty-five. cents and stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress. Meanwhile I advise you to use oils and salad dressings and real salads (uncooked vegetable& fruits. green leaves) literally in | s.A