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Copyright 1939--Revised 1948 NATIONAL DAIRY COUNCIL CHICAGO 6 1958
Yes, it's a tough racket melting the too, too solid flesh. Figure how much you have crept up on the scale, let your doctor figure how fast you dare go down without landing--flop--farther than you ever intended. This little book? It's encouragement, blandishment, a little judicious enragement--but it isn't medicament.
How about reducing tricks? Well, Dumpling, let's take a look. Glands? A slick trick for a few, probably not you. Bath salts? They dissolve the budget, nothing more. Laxatives? Money in the promoter's pocket. Thyroid and other drugs? No, no, NO!
Suppose you want to go up the scale? Put some curves in place of angles? Improve the pep and disposition? Reverse what the fat gal does. Where she envies, you eat. Where she hustles, you rest. When she refuses a snack, you snatch it.
Cheerio, whichever way you're bound. The diet does it. You can figure on that, lady!
W. W. BAUER, M.D. Director, Bureau of Health Education American Medical Association
DESIRABLE WEIGHTS FOR WOMEN Ages 25 and Over
After thirty it is better to be weighed in the balance and found wanting.
HEIGHT WEIGHT IN POUNDS Small Build Medium Build Large Build
COMES THE DAY!
There comes a day in many a woman's life when she has a THOUGHT. Namely: "I MUST start on a diet."
A mere trifle may bring on this thought. Such as:
b) a taxi driver asks, "Where to, Madam?" .
c) a husbandly voice commands, "Sit in front with me, Sonnie, and give mother the back seat where she can spread."
d) walking down Main Street you catch a quick, dreadfully candid glimpse of yourself in a plate glass window. "Heavens!"
If the THOUGHT has come to you, it is likely, alas, to be followed swiftly by second, third, fourth, and fifth thoughts. Thus:
We won't argue with you about thoughts 2, 3 or 4, assuming that you know more about your weight, your intake, and your mother than we do. But when you get to thought 5, we rise up, thus:
DIETS NEED NOT BE DREADFUL
DON'T FALL FOR FALLACIES!
You can easily talk yourself out of dieting by falling for one of those old fallacies that women hug to their bosoms, namely:
"I really need my extra weight for reserve."
"I haven't the will power to go on a reducing diet."
"Oh, well, I'll start on a diet ... next week."
All we can say to this is that statistics prove that you won't.
THE CASE OF MRS. PLENTEOUS
So far we've been appealing to your good looks. Here goes for a try at your good sense. We refer to good sense about health.
Some women are beautiful, some are healthy, some are both, and some are neither. And into the last class fall the definitely overweight.
Now you're going to cry, "Nonsense! Look at Mrs. Plenteous; she's enormous, and as healthy as a horse."
DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT
Ask your doctor. Ask your insurance agent . They will tell you, we think, that excessive waistlines tend to go along with shorter lifelines. Medical records warn us that the overweight person is much more susceptible to illness than the person whose weight is normal. And how surgeons loathe operating through layers of fat! And by the way, look around you at a roomful of elderly people. Aren't most of them rather willowy? The "enormous" ones left early.
SAFETY FIRST!
There are so many tricky health questions involved in reducing that we are not going to take the responsibility of advising you specifically how to do it. We do suggest, however, that you:
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE, GIRLS?
... into the pantry! To hear us talk about diets you might be thinking that we disapprove of food in general. Not so; we love it! Both kinds, the Protective Foods and the Energy Foods.
LIVE--AND ENJOY LIFE
The Protective Foods keep you alive. The Energy Foods keep you enjoying life. Energy foods are like the gas in your car; they give you the quick start, the power to go places, the speed to get there fast. If you've ever run out of gas on a country road, you know how important energy is.
Energy foods are delicious. And fattening. Let's boldly mention a few:
Chocolate eclairs, pies, French pastries, griddle cakes, shortcake, rich salad dressings--yummy!
For the Protective Foods are like the brakes on your car. They keep you out of trouble. They build up your blood by bringing it minerals and vitamins. They help you repel colds and other worse things .
We can conceal from you no longer the fact that these good, reliable, tasty and health building foods include:
MILK--VEGETABLES--FRUITS--EGGS--MEAT--CHEESE
Whatever you weigh, you need both kinds of food. So don't go cutting out all energy foods and then, when you get to feeling droopy, say we told you to do it. WE NEVER DID.
DID SOMEBODY SAY "MILK"?
No, Gwendolyn, it isn't. Milk gets its chief fame from calcium. Calcium may sound like a pretty dull mineral, but believe us, it's worth its weight in gold. In fact, if you have plenty of calcium in your teeth, you won't need so much gold. As for bones, they are full of calcium, or should be. Milk also contains several vitamins and a dozen or so other minerals. In fact, milk is a mineral mine .
Moreover, milk is rich in proteins. And proteins are the material from which your muscles are made. If you have no muscles to speak of, please consider that we are speaking of your husband's muscles.
BABY TALK
Some people seem to think that milk is for babies only. You might just as well say that baths are for babies only. Or love, or petting. No one ever outgrows the need for milk . No other food will do as much to maintain health throughout life.
Why, THIS Isn't Bad!
Breakfast Sliced Orange Poached Egg Buttered Toast Milk Coffee or Tea Luncheon Open-face Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tomato Cabbage Slaw Fruit Cup Milk Dinner Broiled Fish or Steak Green Beans Combination Salad, Lemon Juice Bread and Butter Ice Cream Average servings. See pages 30 to 35. Calories for the day--1,450 to 1,500.
CONCERNING CALORIES
You probably know about calories. There's been a lot of talk about them. In case, however, you still confuse them with vitamins, we point out that a calorie is simply a rather nice word for a measurement of energy. If you weigh too much, you aren't using up calories as fast as you are taking them in.
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