THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 25, 1938.
The correct way of doing the front-bending exercise, good for the waistline. The feet apart, arms folded, knees straight, bend- ing up and down.
AN INFORMAL SUPPER
Menu for an informal meat when
time is limited has to be chosen with care. Everything must be ar- ranged to facilitate quick service.
Hot bouillon.
Mayonnaise of Lobster or prawns. Chicken and ham rolls.
Dessert petits fours. Coffee.
Serve the bouillon in cups with small over-crisped biscuits.
Safety First As A Slimming Slogan
Exercises That
Will Help
The woman who really is burden-is arranged so that each meal in- ed with fat deserves all the help cludes a sufficient quantity of raw and sympathy she can get, because fruit, raw salads and green leafy life in her case cannot be enjoyed vegetables, sérved attractively, less to the full. Because of the extra carbohydrate foods and proteins in weight and heaviness she has to the way of meat and fuel foods carry she becomes tired after the will be eaten. The diet will auto- slightest exertion, feels the heat so matically become balanced, the much that she cannot look forward weight return to normal, and the with any pleasure to a hot summer's health improvė. day, gets out of breath quickly, and cannot enjoy her food properly. In older women the condition may be complicated by a weak heart and varicose veins.
Most people are unaware of the important part played by fresh air in the reduction of fat. Without fresh air there is not sufficient oxy- gen to oxidise the fat-forming foods.
If you are going to lose weight successfully, first of all you must. discover what causes the trouble.
When it comes to a question of For instance, there is one form exercise, the person trying to lose of fat which is thought by the a great deal of extra weight must medical profession to be caused by he absolutely certain that the heart. some endocrine defect. As a result is sound. Fat people are likely to of under-secretion of the thyroid suffer from fatty infiltration or the posterior pituitary gland the fatty degeneration of the heart, in carbohydrates and fats eaten can-which case it would be dangerous not be properly oxidised. In this to undertake exercises. case the fat tends to accumulate around the abdomen and hips.
or
If the heart is sound exercises are extremely useful in helping to
fats.
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A doctor is the person to deal reduce the fat. Each exercise, or Lobster or prawna make an ex-
with this type of fat, and he will group of exercises, for a particular cellent salad. Arrange lettuce on probably prescribe thyroid extract, part of the body
should be pre- shells or plates, cover each one with The woman who on her own initia-ceded by breathing exercise, the flaked meat, top with myonnaise tive or on the advice of a friend that the intake of oxygen may as- and decorate with slices of hard-takes thyroid extract, or any other sist in the combustion of the body bolied
medicine used by the medical pro- capers or tarragon leaves.
fession for this type of obesity, is Large soft rolls such as are sold asking for trouble. The doctor will at Continental buffets are now ob-recommend a diet. tainable. Filled with slices of chic- ken and smoked ham, they look at- tractive. Garnish with tomato, sweet pepper or gherkins.
egg,
SALMON PASTRY ROLL
Cut fine, 1⁄2 cup celery
1 cup green pepper. Cook in
3 tablespoons melted butter until
tender. Add to
pepper.
Fat may be hereditary, and this is difficult to deal with, though it seldom causes serious constitutional trouble.
An ideal treatment consists of massage and exercises following each other. Massage is useful be cause it helps to eliminate the fat stored in the superficial tissues of the body by crushing it, therefore the massage has to be really vigor-| ous to be successful.
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Here is a back-bending exercise, which strengthens the back and is good for the abdominal muscles. Stand erect, feet a little apart, knees straight, and bend back as far as you can.
1. Breathing exercise.....
2. Neck and shoulder massage.
3. Arm exercise. ·
4. Neck and shoulder exercise.
5. Breathing.
6. Abdominal exercise.
7. Breathing.
8. Back exercise.
9. Hip and leg massage.
10. Hip and leg exercise.
11. Breathing.
These exercises should be done near an open window; a light- weight woollen sweater and trunks should be worn.
Exercises 2 and 3, as well as the The ordinary and usual kind of superfluous fat is the result of too
The parts of the body most af-sitting astride an ordinary chair," breathing exercise, should be taken, much food or the wrong kind of fected by the fat are usually the facing the back of it. Needless to ¡food, too little exercise and not neck and shoulders, under the say the back of the chair-should- enough fresh air. Women, as a rule, arms, sides of the chest, the hips, face the window. The abdominal are not inclined to take too much and abdomen.
exercise can be taken lying on the food at each meal, but they may
floor, the back exercise is done on easily plan their meals badly.
A useful arrangement for the hands and knees, and leg exercise treatment would be as follows: standing.
2 cups flaked salmon (one No. 1
tin).
-Every text book and every report 'Season to taste with salt and dealing with the food has the same complaint to make-our diet is de- Prepare. your favourite pie pas-ficient in vitamins. Lack of vitamins try-an amount equaling 2 cups. hampers health and good looks in a Roll out 4 inch thick, spread on hundred and one different ways. It the salmon filling. Then roll as for accounts, for instance, for dental a jelly roll. Place on baking sheet decay and pyorrhoea, it lowers re- and bake at 400 deg. F. for 30 min-sistance to infection, causes stunt- utes. Serve hot and in slices with ed growth and a tendency to creamed mushroom sauce..
rheumatism. If the housekeeping
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A' limbering exercise, good for the waist and hips. Lle ..
your side, knees straight, and kick straight out as high as you can.
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