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The enjoyment
of Life depends upon Fitness
BOVRIL
GIVES STRENGTH and VITALITY
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1951.
NESTA PAIN tells you THE SECRET OF SLIMMING
How to LOSE
D
WEIGHT
-the thirsty way
URING the war, a young woman heard that her husband Was missing.
The strain showed itself in an unusual way. Within nine months, her weight went up from eight and half stone to 11 stone.
A year later, when she had become very fat, she consulted a specialist.
He got her weight down to under ten stone, but she soon put it on again.
One more year passed and she met a wealthy man who took her daily to the best restaurants.
Faced with this incitement to over- eat, she abandoned her diet and her weight fell rapidly to nine stone,
This case
does illustrate how emotional stress can affect the weight.
MORE POPULAR
FALLACIES
That drinking with meals is fattening.
Complete superstition. It does not matter when you drink, it is what you drink that counts.
That Turkish baths "do the trick." They MAY be Not much use. helpful if you are on a SALT-FREE diet, as in that case the moisture lost will probably not be replaced.
"Slimming" pills, drugs, etc.
There is only Absolutely useless. one effective drug in reducting weight but it is dangerous and is not sold to the public.
Cases like this form part thought that an excess of by
for
has
dosing
them
with
tiny gland situated in the brain.
wrong
IŁ
tho
chief regulator
of the primi- reactions
"Pituitary dysfunction" tive
of rage and ---something
with
fear. It large- Why
governs the pituitary's ly working-made શ vague, waking
tha
aleep
and
hent
but impressive, diagnosis and cold, and for obesity.
the Use and disposal of However, experts, now water and agree that it is a complete sugar in waste of time and money
to tako pituitary extract in the hope of getting thin.
body.
the
It Ja con- cerned
with the Bex urge
do
The American scientist and it seems Ranson destroyed the pitui- to have a good
to deal tury in rats without damag with appetite. ing any of the neighbour- the and ing structures, rats showed no increase in as though weight.
And now
these versatile activities were
scientist think
all
of
mechanism" 68 well.
On the other hand, he not enough of the evidence which has thyroid might do the oppo- femule sex hormones 80
the hypothala- it may be the made doctors turn away site.
it was natural for doctors damaged from the theory that it is
to think that perhaps the mus, which lies near it, in centre On normal people. how opposite treatment might 12 rats, but did not touch "weight glands that make you fat.
have the posito effect. the pituitary, and these 12 regulating ever, thyroid extract
ints
became immediately Thyroid,
instance. little effect. Many thousands of people
But it did not werk like very fat indeed. must have been dosed with Treatment by sex hor- that, and now experts think
The hypothalamus is of
sex the thyroid extract to reduce mones has been even more that none their weight.
disappointing. You cas- hormones, male or female, tiny area of the brain, no trate animals in order to is any use at all in reduc- larger than a postage stamp, This was because people fatten them for the table. ing weight.
which possesses a startling the most power over half under. suffering from -active thyroid gland some.
can scientists
The "pituitary" was once important functions of mind times get fat, and it was now do the job, just as well a favourite culprit-it is a and body.
Rn
In fact,
DON IDDON'S DIARY
S soon as I got back to
Now York I saw the
sign-all bright yellow
letters
black saying 011
"Shelter," and an arrow
NEW
YORK...
TUESDAY
As for all
American rela-
pointing to the basement the lamenting All dressed up for
floor of 50, Rockefeller over Anglo- Plaza, where I work.
Then, enclosed with my new driving licence from the Police Department was a notice mark- ed "Important" and saying
"In the event of enemy attack in any city of New York State vehicles may be private operated within the boundaries of the attacked city without authorisation of the local Civil Defence Director."
NO
And last Saturday there was
this
tion and the ever widening gulf, I've lived thi ought
and over ovci against and we always emerge more closely at- tached when the rows have been resolved. .....
order sweeping
on everyone
"gearing"
A different
of this mecha- nism would explain a ten-
dency
fat
in different in-
dividuals,
families and
races.
Gut this out-
DEHYDRATING
your FAT
DON'T EAT: Bread or anything else made from flour.
Cereals,
including breakfast
cereals and milk puddings.
Potatoes and all other white root vegetables parsnips. sterics, arti chokes). ..
Foods containing much sugar. Any sweets.
Salt. If possible, no gait should be used in the cooking, other mem- bors of the family adding it at table. Fats-at least don't eat them in excess. The small amount at present available is generally per- missible.
Fluids should be limited to two pints a day.
EAT AS MUCH AS
YOU LIKE:
Ment, fish, birds.
All green vegetables.
Eggs, dried or fresh.
Cheese.
unsweetened Frult, if sweetened with saccharin.
or
You should weigh yourself once a week at the chemist. using the same chemist and wearing the same clothes, On this diet you should lose between ONE AND TWO POUNDS A WEEK.
If you lose more than two pounds, you are being unnecessarily strict. If you lose less than one pound, you are not being strict enough.
Dehydrating To deprive ni water
onc of. The fact that emotion may doctor can prescribe affect the weight was one rea- these you should always con- son for suspecting the hypotha- sult your doctor before Jamus, since it is one of the barking on a diet). main centres of the emotional life.
And diseases
which
attack
cm-
vir-
a
and
He allows his patients
is 10- tually no salt. This
maintains cause the body balance between its #alt water content, and if you de- auto- prive it of colt it will matically rid itself of water.
He also limita the amount his patients may drink to two pints a day.
all prices have been frozen--the hypothalamus are often but apparently not for long. accompanied or followed by a
After the big freeze the big rapid increase in weight.
The thaw.
Many specialists think, too, clamping controls and everything already shows that some abnormality in the signs of melting, and the public regulation of, fulds in the body and uncomfort-may cause people to grow fat. are confused
That also would point to the able.
Toriny there are 61,000,000 hypothalamus.
Apart from this, his dict is 100 of them are women, Forty
lines-severe on conventional thousand million dollars per fat is not fat, but water. To limitation of the carbohydrates
out in year are being paid
prove it, he cut two cylinders of ("starchy" foods) money, ch.
abdomens wages. A lot of
flesh from the
of restricted protein. Moscow?-enough to crumple two patients one fat and one his instructions:- the Kremlin.
the emergency-but Amertens at work and 108.000- few know exactly
where they're going
When I left New
the air-raid siren test all over Montreal the demand town.
atom-bombs
Hurried plans
QUEER homecoming. Parti-
Acularly as the office shelter well.
me it
5+
Food-wasting
far
One consultant goes 50
effect-that as to maintain-in
thin,
tens of moo much, however, is being One cylinder was four times practically
Now the shout is for captured any space on the news portions here get larger,
spread
I
Too defensive
more
19
was
*
anki
Lin- Here are
When you reach the weight you want, you can afford to relax quite a lot not al- together, however, for the ten- stitutional and will remain. dency to 1st is probably con-
of
as
con-
Even if the hypothalamus that
this tendency, the fat controls
whose scientists suggest, nobody has person up water to an yet found any means
trolling the hypothalamus.
All the same, in most people weight is astonishingly constant --so much so that a theory has been put forward that this may be due to some outside force.
the ab- domen is a favourite place.
This consultant worked out a successful regime for reducing which · ទេ aimed at weight "dehydrating" the patient.
casting us they are
wasted. It seems to me, as York for thousands of dollars.
fat content was lo The impact they are making, I rend about 8d.-worth of meat as high as the other, but the
We haven't per week in somewhero however, is small.
Britain, that the
the cqual. flagrant.
He suggests head and Nehru's ao pages; the Festival is not a extravagance
talking-point or even a conver- One pound-I'm talking about person
weight of steak per person per tissues soak There is talk abut teaching sation filler-in. turned out to be a row of
Our showmanship lacks drive meal is freely advertised, Food abnormal extent, underground shops with huge "the Chinks" a lesson and mak plate-glass windows
Where you are fat will de- and a ing them feel the lash. The fal- and vigour and imagination. So has never been more abundant, does our official response to the and enough is wasted every fancy coclttail-bar. The Police heads are in full cry,
anti-British wave now washing week to feed all Britain for a pend on where you keep your
"sponges"in men, informed Department
The strain has even social affairs. would be all right for a pews- to
was this continent from New York to
day. paperman to drive around "the at a party for Joyce Ruther- San Francisco, attacked city," and the sirens fori the
night, and other
about were so faint that they could was talking quietly not be heard indoors, and out- Mr Herbert Hoover and My
merely they
sounded Joseph Kennedy to two attractive like a mild motor-car horn that girls. Their reaction was wrathi- had stuck,
ful, and possibly understandable. I think these hurried, well- meant, but inadequate precau- Father's footsteps tions are indicative of current
Jobb who commands U.S. policy on a wider and more
THE THEY turned out to be Miss Pat wyn
attention or collects headlines. days, Fashions reach back to Important front
Kennedy and Miss Eunice
'20's, and the We are always on the defen- the Everyone means well and is Kennedy-the daughters of Mr sive. The popular Press and its wave has been revived. trying hard, but few know where Kennedy--and their hearts and
readers cry: "What about British they are going
foreign policy belong to Daddy.
All successes The national chorus begins to
They told me their father had trade with Red China?
Is British money resemble the Whiffonpoof Song received 70,000 letters backing about Hongkong, and rubber for
the Reds? "We
Isolationist plan, and We are poor little lambs his who've lost our way, baa, baa, believe them.
doors
baa."
of hand and bleating loudly. Particularly about the British.
meat
British the
TOMORROW:
Perhaps Lake Success would be more worthy of its name if Il concentrated a little more on food for the world and less on ITTLE that the
Just now It's fancy phrases.
it Information Services,
standing very low. In fact, and British seems to be standing for any-
He prescribes a "dhurelle," A good non-fattening British Embassy, Consulates do seems to have any thing the people will fall for, so that water is passed
We have no and there is little faith in it-readily from the body. (Your effect or influence.
pokesman excepting Sir Glad- certainly in New York.
What
There is nostalgia for the old
before American IN entertainment
Marcolle
the cut- nut
standing personality on Broad- I meet a good
of the '20's" The problem is to save proportion of the 70,000 writers
What do we do or say? We way is "Tallulah the lambs and our own sheep every day. Being an Englishma murmur and mumble and pro- (Miss Bankhead), and her radio Jack Benny's, from the slaughter.
in New York these days is being ce daily pamphlets of stale show outshines The flock here is certainly out the target for fierce criticism, statistics. Our words go into one Bob Hope's, or Bing Crosby's.
Even the cruel cut in
American ear and out of the Tallulah is terrific.
Another old-timer, if she will ration, whic widely altis
Is Kirsten reported here, has not softened other, and our pamphlets into Over and over
has triumphed again at the AM assured on all sides that the American attitude. The feel- the wastepaper baskets of a forgive the word,
Metropolitan ing is that this latest cut is not thousand American newspaper Flagstad, who
offices and radio stations. Anglo-American relations have
50 much un unavoidable sacrifice
1 am not saying it is easy to Opera. rarely been worse and the gulf as another illustration of Social-
George Sanders is not going present the British case and ist ineptitude, bad" managemeni, nover wider.
aft record to the American audience. 1 Landon after all. He will Several close American friends, blundering, and general
It isn't Even Barnum might have ring and star in "South Pacific" have asked me: "Don't you feel round inefletency.
been baffled, but at least let us in New York.
are prominent shamed about letting us down
British prestige has you,
the pleasure parado. I believe many Americans in and walking out on us after all gone down and down and down try a bit harder, we have done?" I have reminded in America since the Labour them that the British are letting Government took office. Perhaps would listen. The home front "The Blue Lamp," "So Long Al Noon" "Operation Disaster" the Festival of Britain will do is as perplexing to them as tho The Fair" "Seven Days To something to restore it. Adver- foreign
This is the week of the big (as "Morning Departure" in tisements about the Festival now
All wages and almost titled here), are all successes, blossom all over the place, and freeze.
no one down, least of all the Americans; that we are merely counselling caution and common
bense.
POP
I'M JUST OFF "TD GET MY NEW GLASSES
BUT
I tell
British
films
H.Q. posting
I MUST POST THE SE
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