If you want
to slim safely-
Anthony Weymouth
tells
you
how
LIMMING is only dangerous when you set about in
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the wrong way. And the wrong way is the way that is too drastic and too sudden: or the way that is not based on common sense.
. For our bodies are just as much creatures of habits as our minds. They have become accustomed, for instance, to a certain number of meals each day: and each meal, they have learned, contains some of the foodstuffs they need. In other words, they've settled into a routine.
For our bodies are jurt as much creatures of habits as our minds. They have become accustomed, for instance, to a certain number of menk each day: and each meat, they have learned, contains some of the food- stuits they need. In other words, they've settled into a routine.
to hurry
fruit Don't try
Now it is a rulous fact that most people who go in for a course of slimining decke to do so saudenly. In bust of enthurium they ret about altering their babits. And in afraid they don't always do it wisely
though they often do it too well.
Ever noticed how oven a slight change in your daily routine-urh
as a railway journey-may completely upset your functions? Docon't this suggest that a sudden and drastic alteration in what you are aceustontal to eat may be equally, if not more, disturbing?
This is wrong
TERE'S what happens when
H
you Jolt your bodies out
of their routine.
It is known that the various
chemicals which elreulate in the
blood and leed your organs and all
are in your tissues
a state of ba- Jance.
Take, for instance, the amount of sugar in the blood. In health this never varies, except within certain limits.
If it should fall below a certain level, you feel tired and out of sorts. If it becomes very low, the nervous system suffers, and you grow highly alrang jump and irritable.
All day long you are, burning up your sugar. Every time your heart beats it uses a small quantity. You replace your sugar from your food. If you don't, what happens? You have about ten ounces of sugar stored in your muscles and liver, so you can call on this. But this will got last for ever.
Then you can live on your own fat. · That will do the same as the sugar and act as fuel. But fat alone It entises acido- la no good to you.
sis.
You'll lose out
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MOREOVER, if you live on
your own fat and take a Ittle Jeltuce with H, you may lose weight, but you'll cise as well. You will lose your resistance to discare.
-Once you have done this you are much more likely to fall a victim
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That extra pat of butter
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vading your tissues, these corpus- eles immediately increase in num- ber. (Doctors count them when you're ill to see how much they have increased.)
lose something Keep it up
HERE'S
to one of the germs which are al- ways hanging about.
You
miles
starches. fato and sugars.
Cut down on Walk
third
one, and one
That is why you hear from time
to time of people who have slimmed too suddenly getting ill. Don't think that am opposed to slimming so lon
it done sensibly. But what is a sensible way to do it?
First. make your adjustment gradually. Remember that the foods which put on weight are fals,
Hints For A Housewife
starches, and sugars. It's simple to WHEN doors and windows face the
Put these down a little.
Work on a plan
WATCH
the
23
OMELETS
FOR
SUMMER
LUNCHES
WHAT could be more delicious on a
WHAT
hot summer day than a "light as air" umelet?
Here are a few suggestions as to the best method of making savoury omelets-plain, dressed, and stuffed, For each person, allow two eggs, cream, one tablespoonful of milk one ounce of butter, salt and pepper to faste
Blend the eggs, add the milk or cream, seasoning and half the But- ter, cut into small pieces. Put the remainder of the butter into the
ometet
pan to mell. When the but- ter is melted, pour in the mixture and stir with a metal spoon, folding. over well as it starts to set.
When nearly all the liquid has ret draw the omelet half across the pan
to form an oval shape. When just et turn on to a hot dish and serve
at once.
To "dress" the omelet add one at the following before cooking:-One tablespoonful of chopped parsley, a pinch of fine herbs, & tablespoonful of finely grated cheese or a little minced hum or tongue.
To "stuff" tle omelet-make a plain omelet with the foundation niixture and have ready a small quantity of cooked mushrooms, ham, kidney, or fish, &c., which should be
fuely divided and made hut in a
little butter,
When the omelet is ready, place the hot Atling in the centre. fold over and serve at once.
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Stonet and Souffle Omelets
Sweet omelet
is made with the
sime foundation mixture as the plain variety plus two teaspoonfuls
of sugar. Serve sprinkled with su- star or place hat un or hot fruit
in the centre, purec
One tablespoonful of rum can be added in plice of the milk (before
cooking) to alve a distinctive Bo- vour it liked.
To make souffle omlet allow two yolks and three whites of eggs, one or two teaspoonfuls of sugar, halt an Dunce of butter Separate the
whites and yolks, add the sugar to the yolks and beal well.
Whisk up the whites and add to the yolks just before cooking. Melt the butter in the omelet pan. pour in the mixture, and cook until light- ly set.
Cook the upper side under the
grill or in the oven. Turn on to a sugared paper, place warm jam or fruit purce in the centre, fold over, and serve at once.
afternoon.nun, give the wood- How to Get Good Results work a weekly application of course
Here are olive oil. This will keep the wood
a few hints which, if in condition and prevent it blister-borne in mind, will make all the difference in the world to the success of your omelets. An excellent substitute for a The omelet pan should never be steamer is an enamelled or alumini- used for any other purpose, and um colander, Place over a pan of should be kept perfectly clean by boiling water and cover the vegeta-wiping with a soft paper iminediete- bles with a buttered paper and, on ly after use.
When the CEAS are used whole burned up the pat of butter you did, the lid of the pan.
(yolk and white not separated) they take. If after a few weeks you are
should only be beaten enough to stil not losing satisfactorily, cut hot weather. Hold the package un-biend them, and should not be made
weighing-ing. machine week by week. Give up that extra pat of utter. You'll then have sacrificed enough energy to walke one and a third miles. ог course, If you walk that distance as well, you will.
down your 'starches. This only means giving up puddings, and cat
Butter often sticks to the paper in
der the cold tap for a moment before unwrapping when the butter will another link-up. ing fruit instead.
turn out cleanly. The White corpuseles If you work on a simple plan of increase automatically after a meal, this kind you will give your body required in
When only the white of an egg is That is why, if you're eating nor- time
to adjust itself. You won't end of the egg with a darning needle, a recipe, pierce each mally, you are keeping up your re- be starving it of chemicals it can't making one hole
do without.
larger than the other for the white to run through. For, if you are overweight, all As the holes quickly send up again. you will be doing is to tempt it to the, yolk will keep fresh for several use small quantities of the excessive days. fat it has got in its tissues.
M. L. B.
have in your blood white sistance. corpuscles; they are the blood's- scavengers-they pick up poisons. As FOOT! 05 your resistances arc called on to fight a germ that is in-
But if you are not taking enough food or perhaps cutting your rations down to one meat a day, you are definitely lowering your resistance.
LETTERS TO THE LIGHT
EDITOR
Training Criminals
In Hongkong
To the Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph,
Sir,-Yesterday two women, one from Un Long, the other a long- kong woman, were near the Ko Shing Theatre and two boys snatched the carrings of the Un Long woman. The earrings were mult gold rings. When the woman chased the boys, a man stood between her and them, and hindered her, and the boys got away.
I advised her to report it to the Police, but, she said it would bo dimcult to get them back in any case, and in-day she is returning to Un Long.
This is the type of boy that ought to be in school, but education does nut seem to be provided for them, and so our guol is overstocked with prisoners. Can nothing be done, or must
continue to have boys trained so that they may All the gaol?
We
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LIGHT LUNCH
Corn With
Mushrooms and Bacon
Hent #tin of sweet corn in a double boiler, after draining off surplus liquid. Fry loz, of even- sized mushrooms, and 5 thin slices of bacon, cut in halves and made into iny rolls.
for a busy housewife
Light dishes are what women, especially if they're busy, fancy at lunch-time, but they shouldn't be dull, should be ap-
petising
Heap the corn in a hot dish, spread on the cooked pancakes, radish, some chopped parsley, a arrange the mushrooms over- Roll up and serve as hot as possi- little made mustard and a little lapping round the edge with a ble.
border of bacon rolls Inside.
Sprinkle with finely chopped pars- Eggs on Vegetable Pudding ley, or paprika, and serve very hot with snippets of fried brend,
Stuffed Cheese Pancakes
chopped gherkin. Fill the hall shells with the mixture, heat up in the oven, and then arrange on Cook half a bunch
top of the vegetable pudding just of young before serving. enrrota with an equal quantity
of small white onions, and have Fish with- Tomatoes ready a pound of cooked spinach, fireproof dish,
Well grense a shallow fireproof
Make a pancake batter in the Make layers in a ordinary way, adding 2oz. of covering each layer with well alleed tomatoes. Season with salt gented cheese for each 4oz. of seasoned white sauce. Bake for and pepper and arrange Allets of flour. Season very well, and 20 minutes in a moderate oven white fish make into thirs pancakes,
on top. Put more (Regulo Mark 0). Allow an egg sliced tomatoes over. season and For the Alling, cook Joz. ineed for each person, cook until hard add smail pieces of butter.. steak with a small grated onlon, then 'cut in half lengthwise, and Bake in a fairly hot oven (Re- a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, remove the yolks.
gulo Mark 7) for about 25 min- 1oz. of butter and
Mash these with butter, salt, utes, and serve an egg inn
with a sauce double boiler, season well and pepper, a little grated horse- flavoured with a little anchovy.
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too fully by unnecessary whisking. When the white and the yolke of the egg are to be added separately, the white should be made as light as possible by thorough whisking' and just before cooking. should only be added to the yolk
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The addition of a little milk or cream to the mixture increases the bulk and makes a lighter and mols- F1114 ter omelet. IL also makes folding casier.
The butter for cooking the omelet must not be too hot when the mix- ture is poured into the pan.
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