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The
t
f
slim ming
Foods that fatten-and
foods that SLIM
And what your healthy
S
weight should
OME people are al- ways struggling against a tendency to put on weight, but for most of us our weight is quite astonishingly con- stant.
PRODUCT
We give the body varying of food-a five- amounts course dinner one night, and bread and cheese the next, We may take it up a moun- tain on Sunday, and hardly stir out of a chair on Mon- day.
And yet in spite of this the weight scarcely varies by more than 0.5 percent
Undeterred, he then attempted oppostic experiment and the weighted volunteers down with
andbags.
be
If you are very much over and have to reduco weight
once you
to
sent in the
ent.
various foods you
Here 18 A table Dhowing which foods ure the most fattening. It is based on their carbohydrato content, but it is not scientifically accurate,
It is approximate only, but it has been arranged like this to that it can easily be remen- bered,
Most fattening
100 PERCENT
BUGAR
a fot this is bound to be rather a miserable process, but when
have reached the A FIGURE of 100 has been They lost a pound or so in 24 weight you want it ought to he given to sugar as the most hours, which suggests that possible, by choosing your foods fattening of these foods, and the show how increasing the pull of gravity on scientifle grounds. to live well percentage figures does tend to reduce the weight, and yet romain alim.
the other foods compare with but the mathematics of making There are plenty of good sugar- allowance for the extra effort of things cab that are not supporting sandbags were so fattening
to that agnin the Probably the best way
50 PERCENT, AND OVER complicated
considered slim is not to tie yourself down
but to regard DRIED FRUITS. (Apples, dates, results could not be
to a rigid dlci,
AgG.) your weight in rather the same
DRIED VEGETABLES, (Len- Perhups Professor Dodds may light as your bank balance.
tils. You must balance what you
(Wheatmeal, oal- pursue these experiments fur- ther one day, and then we may put in against what you use up, CEREALS.
the mcal,
pearl barley meal, carbohydrates are know more about whether our and
Pro- or coinage you must watch.
barley, rice.) weight depends on gravity
GO PERCENT. not
feins are not fattening.
If you
going to watch BREAD. (All brenda carbohydrates intelligently, you speelal starch-reduced
etles.) must know how much is pre-
definite.
in 24 hours. No engineer Not mere vanity
would
Care
to
design
machine to do that!
IN
the meantime, the slimming] problem has to be tackled by i
And rather less exolic means.
This constancy is so striking that scientists have suggested Irt ncbedy dismits stimming as that it must be related to some mere vanity, Slimming is impor thing external. There are plenty tant to health, as
appearance.
of parallels for such an idea.
Biris
begin to
mate in the spring when the light fall- ing on their necks reaches a
certain
intensity. Our own temperature is con- trolled by our res-
ponse to external heat and cold. But
-by-
NESTA
PAIN
well as 10
People who
arc
of
too fat are able to variety diseases, from flat feet to bronchitis.
One slone over the normal weight In people of middle- shortens the expectation of He
agc
what external influence might by about 10 percent. Three and affeot weight?
he has
a half stone overweight kills as many people as valvular heart The British Gelentist Professor disease. Dodds has suggest that it
The ideal weight is partly a might be gravity, and carried out some experiments to matter of taste perhaps, but it test this theory. He persuaded, has been given as 10st. 4lb. or some volunteers to wear gas- man of 5ft, Gins. (You add or to take away roughly 4lb. for every filled balloons strapped on their arms, so as to reduce the inch of height.) pult of gravity.
On and off
For a woman of 5ft 3ins. the right weight is about st., adding or subtracting 316. or 4lb. for every inch above or below this height.
arc
except Verl
TOAST.
25-50 PERCENT,
Prunes, peas (dried), bulter
beans, haricot beans,
10-25 PERCENT. FRUITS, (Apples, pears, green-
KOLCE, nectarines,
grapes, bananas, cherries, pineapples.) VEGETABLES. (Potatoes.
parsnips.)
5-10 PERCENT, FRUITS. (Peaches (tresh), gooseberries, currants, plums, strawberries, raspberries, melons, apricots, orangen.) VEGETABLES, (Spring onions, beetroot, peas.)
UNDER PERCENT. FRUITS, (Blackberries, Cran- berries, rhubarb, lemons, olives.)
VEGETABLES. (Cauliflower,
scakale,
marrow. spinach, brussels sprouts, tomatoes, lettuce, cabbage, celery, cu-
cumber,
water- asparagus,. cress, endives, sauerkraut, carrots, radishes, Artichokes, french beans, scariot runners, boiled onions, leeks.)
N.B.-All foods Usted as less
ten than
per cent xxy calcn freely,
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
FFACE W TWEL
and to you see, it is necessary that we should all make a big effort cheerfully to do without the use of all those power-consuming appliances.. Mr. Fother ingay Some oficious fool has had the internet check to
disconnect this Dictaphone
Sharman's Job In Hollywood
From NEWELL ROGERS
EW JOB: Miss Shar-
NEW
man Douglas, daughter
be of the former U.S. Ambas- sador to London, has been -given a publicity job in Hollywood by producer Gabriel Pascal.
A-Bomb City Lives
On Its Postcards
L
By LIONEL CRANE
10
"CINDERELLA” helped Walt Disney to make a profit of L256,000 last year. It was his best year since "Snow White."
"OPERATION DISASTER" Britain's Funken. submarine "Morning De- picture-called parture" in Britain-wins this tribute from critic Bosley Crowther! "The Food old English tradition of the stift upper lip comes through with dignity and conviction."
THREE STUDENTS tried to HIROSHIMA.. fron dome, stand in a garden of The guide led me
the telephone Stalin. They wanted to ask him whether they should rubble.
Osaka Bank to see the shadow | volunteer at once or wait to Japanese werken was of a man left on the steps by be conscripted.
ITTLE Yosuko San is still very pretty, al- though seven pieces of glass were once blasted into her face.
When I went in a
over the rubble with u rake,
He
The guide explained he was the bomb explosion. On the way
FATTEST MAN in America we passed two cinemas and a looking for "souvenirs."
theatre specia-measured 8ft. Gins. around the Using in strip- middle and was 5ft. Sins. tall. But Bli Wetsei just missed hla tease shows.
life-long ambition to weigh 30 On a hill
stone. Now he is dead and his overlooking the weight was only 48 stone.
city is
TC-
Search station
She came smiling into my hotel room this morning with a cup of tea, and in her black and gold kimono look-
FOOD-The Explorers' Club called the Atom dined on roast to have
giant sloth, ed dainty enough
to be 250,000 years Bomb Casualty supposed stepped off one of those fra-
Commission. In old. A carcase of the extinct this glass beast was found "refrigerated" DY the end of 24 hours they
Unlike so many other things, gile Japanese bridges in a had put on a pount or so, the ideal in weight can certainly willow-pattern plate.
walled build-in a glacier, or so the explorers The atom mushroom--at the 1940 Bint test.
It tasted like veal which looked hopeful for the be attained. (Thut, at least, is o
ing U.S. and swear. theory. Unfortunately, how- faet, whatever the uncertainties) Yosuko was 17 when the already had several places of Japanese doctors have spent DRINK-Baraldo diplomats
Professor Dodds ever,
The atom bomb dropped on burned metal in a box, but the two years studying the effect of
in UNO's new skyscraper palace never able to
bomb on the people persuade his weight car be reduced at will, Hiroshima in August 1945. guide said these are not so the
hopefully expected a Scotch to volunteers to put up with given determination and self-
Hiroshima.
fall from 60 to 15 cents--the the balloons long
enough control. If you deprive the body Today she folded her hands valuable as pieces of bone.
bar is in international territory. But the US, tax still applies, to get any definite results-other of food, it cannot help but lose and knelt on a brocaded cushion to tell me what she than "mirth and sardonic com- weight.)
Scotch is still 60 ments," as he says.
y oficials. remembered about it.
was about the cause of fatness.
It does mean deprivation-that has to be faced-but it need not He thought rats might be more be so bad if you know what you amerable, and he dressed some are doing. Your doctor may give rats in chain mall and put them you dextro-amphetamine pills to under a magnet. Unfortunately, reduce the appetite, but even this experiment, too, proved without these there is no need to impracticable.
feel hungry,
NON-FATTENING
FIRST-CLASS
DINNER
• YOU can have a first-class dinner without eating any of the really fattening.foods.
"Carbohydrates" starchy foods such as bread and potatoes--are the worst offenders.
"Here in a menu which avoids them fairly rigidly -
Oysters.
Clear soup.
Sole baked in wine.
Roast
turkey. (Chicken or Pheasant, preferred.)
Brussels sprouts. Cauliflower.
Raspberry Melba.
Fresh fruit salad. (No sugar.) Mushrooms and bacon.
If
N.B.-No toast or bread of any description must be taken. If you are being very strict, mias out the raspberry melba.
• DRINK is a problem.
One dry martini is as fattening as a bun and butter. A double whisky is equal to three. boiled eggs-and it takes a five-mile walk to cancel it.
A pint of beer is just as bad.
Wine is a little botter. A glass of cham- pagne is the equivalent of a bun without butter, There is no escaping the fact that alcohol is fattening, but, if you do drink, wines are better than spirits or beer.
POP
MADAME, PLEASE STRÁ TALKING!
"It was a nice day," she said. Tho sky was sunny and blue I was at like a cornflower,
There was a big bang home. and our little house fell down.
"It was uncomfortabla. Glass cut my face. Look," and she pointed to seven ridges in her round smooth checks,
Then, almost as an after- thought, she said: "My mama San and papa San I seo no
more."
静
Yosuko kept smiling, and her voice was allce a child's reciting a party piece. It sounded naive and unreal but I found later It was the attitude of the whole city,
་
Big business—----
To the rest of the world Hire- shima is another name for dis- aster, but here where it hap- pened the years have dredged away the fear and awe and left
kind of pride in
the
ہیں
They
of
is
No new illness On a concrete plinth in front of the building is a carving of
have examined all three doves
peace flying in known casualties and all the front of an atomic cloud. A women who have had babies conta (48. 3d.). potice in English says: "This since the explosion
MUSIC: Dame Kyra Hess is We have found nothing now," not only one of Britain's pre- building, which preserves its damaged state most conspicuous said. Dr. Warner Wells, a senior etous dollar-earners.
She surgeon. "All the injuries woone of about six concert soloists ly, is an object of many re- miniscences to the populace," have 'sces could have been in the world who can fil
Hall caused by any other explosion, Carnegie
(2,700 seats), and we have come across Do A rapturous audience for an ther all-Beethoven new illness."
programme other day consisted of about one man to five women.
Souvenir shop
A finger-sign points to a green hut and says: "Ficase rest awhile
Dave
cheese souvenirs,
scll
My souvenir of Hiroshima is a piece of scarred stone with a in this room. Use no ceremony" gift-painted edge. My namo bas Inside the rest room is like been written on it in English of the cheese shops in and Japanese above the words Cheddar Gorge. But instead of "Explosion centro, Hiroshirha,"
the attendants
It is so big I had to carry it In my hand In a crowded tram, and elderly women kept sturing These includo small drinking at it and then at me. cups dirty with atomic dust,
It was the only time I felt pieces of metal that look as The Bomb was embarrassing. though they have come from a
-{London Express Service). meteor, and picture ike those on the Brighton front, except that they show a ruined city.
postcards stalls Ore
Outside, another souvenir stall sells pots' half-moited by heat from the bomb, and American has come to the city me that magazines with such titles as
TTUC Love Stories" Bomb which killed at "Experiences."
The
least 78,150 people-has beeti
turned Info big business. The exact aiming polit was a T- shaped bridge over one of the city's seven rivers and around
'Peace Tree'
and
Near the ruins, three British
here the ruins have been lett soldiery asked a Buddhist priest
Just
as they were on the dy to pose for pictures on the steps of a temple. Ho hurried inside. of the big bang.
The
spot is now A tourist to put on his bost robes. centro and hub of the souvenir Close to the temple are two trade which has become one of pieces of charred wood labelled Hiroshima's major industries.
"Peace Tree. No more wars." tho
The
ruined Industry Promotion Hall
15" attraction which was formerly used for trade shows.
The cracked and blasted walls Let this building, with its rusty
A cluster of clover grows at the foot of the tree. Each leaf hra email hole in it and botanista say this is the result of atomic rádio-activity.
Lights out!
THERE ARE
PEOPLE HERE.
TRYING TO GET
SOME
SLEEP!
OPINION: For the present, the wise man asrurmes a long period of partial mobilisation rather War III IB then that World
Then right round the corner.
defentiam are indecision and
James conquered.
Bryant Conant, one of America's first scientists and head of Harvard University.
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