The Six
Best Diets I
Know-by Dr. Dr.
Mary
Mary Anthony
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1886.
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Everybody is vitally interested in this series of diets that have been appearing in the "Telegraph. Dr. Mary Anthony, specialist in Health and Welfare, has been to Sweden to look for a perfect diet. She has found six The diets that must appeal to all in search of the perfect figure and fitness. Swedes were world pioneers in the study of special exercises and massage for Health and Beauty. Now they are leading the world in the study of dietetics for the prevention and cure of disease and the surest way to health and beauty.
5. Diet
T is proved by modern medical science that a -reasonable amount
of
slimming is health-giving and produces a sense of well-
being.
There is no doubt that many of us consistently eat too much. Habit la very strong, and it is only when the Individual notually begins, to .study and to weigh her food that she realises how she has over-caten: in the past.
..
When an excess of food and drink
is taken it is stored in the liver and the body generally. The body only uses up enough food and drink to keep it going, and the excess is not eliminated --but produces an unnecessary amount of fat. For this reason a careful dict will reduce the ordinary healthy fat person.
There are, however, certain individuals who do not react to a slimming diet. There are Individuals who cannot elimi- nato fluid properly; their tissues become. water-logged. In such cases an ordinary reducing diet will not help matters. The fluid intake must be lessened and medicine given to help rid the tissues of thair excess of moisture, through the kidneys.
ANOTHER type of obesity which does not react to diet is due to Inilure, alther partial or entire, of the glands which throw an internal secretion into the blood stream. This-type is soon in abnormally Tat schoolchildren.
But the ordinary healthy person should react well to the following Swedish diet list for reducing fat.
Very little sult is used in the diet and the meals are taken as dry as possible. Enting between meals is strictly forbidden. Only plain or mineral- water is allowed between meals,
At first there may be a feeling of hunger and of weakness, but after a day or two this passes off and is followed by a sense of well-being and energy.
Forbidden
SUGAR. Soft bread. Sweet dishes as dessert.
Potatoes. Butter. Cream cheese. Cream to
for
coffee and tea. Fat meat and pork. Sardines. Fat fish, as salmon, herring. Fat sauce.. Flour dishes, puddings, pancakes. Milk and Pilsener beer. Wine and liquor, sugar. Vegetable soup without fat. Sweet Boups with sugar and Clear bouillon. Mineral waters such thickening.
Substitute
health bread.
*Skorpor.
as Poria Rambose, Inverness, Lemon water. Russian tea and ordinary water. No sugar, but snecharin may be used for sweetening if desired.
coffee.
FRUIT not sweet. Swedish "Skorpor-rusks taken with tea or Grahamsbrod. Vegclables. Little butter. Black coffee and tea. Or- dinary, cheese, Lean fish-cod, etc, Lean ment, as calf, ox, chicken, wild fowl. Bouillon meat and fish gele. Chopped egK. Vegetables (green) and salad. Bolled frult without the stone variety.
Fruits Allowed
APPLE, pear, grapes, orange, grapetruit, vtewed fruits of
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Fat
Women
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DIET for SLMMING
(Should reduce by two to three-pounds a week. Continue till a normal weight for height is reached, then return to average dict.)
ON RISING
Orange juice or unsweetened lemon water.
BREAKFAST
·Grapefruit. Swedish health bread, Grahambrod. Ono cgg or four ounces white fish grilled. Little butter. Russian tea, black coffee, ordinary water..
LUNCH
Choice of fruit such es apple, pear or few grapes. Bouillon, meat or fishgcle or chopped cgg-2oz. Allernative: Green salad with tomato, lettuce or radishes, ad lib. Two pieces Swedish bread.
TEA
Tea or coffee with skorpor (runks).
DINNER
-Clear bouillon or vegetable soup without fat. Lean fish-cod, etc., steamed or boiled one alice. Alternativo; -Lean meat such as veal, beef, chicken or wild fowl (three ounces when cooked). Green vegetables (viz ounces when cooked.) Boiled fruit without sugar. Jelly. Raw fruit: Choice of the citrus fruits or apples or stone fruits, Health bread. Mineral or ordinary water as desired during the day.
On two or three days per week potatoes may be substituted for the meat or fish course at lunch or dinner, thus making vegetarian days.
CHARACTER by Colour
WHAT gives you a preference for Navy
- makes another woman favour shades of Green-and yet another be "wedded" to Grey? In this article BETTY HÀND`gives you one explanation.
Name Chart
BLANCHE
Child clad in fura
Symbol: feeding an elk.
THIS
HIS name expresses quickness of thought, intuitive perceptions, and a tender, impressionable nature, Wednesday Is your day of fortune and the hours of 5 pm, and 7 p.m. hold the most promise.
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CONSIDER for a moment the they make their career marriage or the 14th,
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uny subject or situation with an
ore tho
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