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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1936.-

The six best diets I know-by Dr.

Diet for

Thin

Women

The

sur-

Mary Anthony

A year or so ago dress designers decided that curves should be encouraged, given a delicate emphasis in day and evening clothes. Since then thousands of womén have been trying to put on weight, to cushion their bones with a more generous padding of flesh.

The dict given to-day is fundamentally one for every woman—every man, too, who wants to be healthy and to build up a good resistance to epidemics and discasc. It contains nourishing everyday foods like bread, milk, fruit, meat, vegetables, fish, served in an order that has been proved to be body-building without producing in the normal.. person an excess of fat.

But it is an admirable diet-basis alsò for the too-thin woman who will soon begin to put on the yearned-for weight if she has extra helpings of all the dairy-produce items such as cream, butter, eggs, and starchy vegetables such as pota- toes and parsnips.

For

HE problem of nutri- maintain life that does not in- tion is being consider clude one or other of the pro-

tective foods. ed by nearly all coun-

us though they are in common use the wild rose; it is said to be very In Sweden,

rich in vitamins.. tries to day.

WHEN in Sweden 3 found

JA instance, oatgruel userl labar soup is a sweet made from that to complete, R Health Organisation of the

more than in England. It bilberries, These are much used in League of Nations, for in- vey of the standard of diet through much

a Sweden either fresh or dried. They out the country returns were ob- forms the staple part of both starice, has issued a pamphlet ained from all the bospitals. These child's and an adult's first breakfast, are supposed to be excellent for the

The people believe in it as an excel- blood and for chest trouble. thoroughne und a wealth of detail the various with a large quantity of milk it is suggesting certain standards are with extreme

lent body builder, and taken as it is of food for different indi- diets used for pallents who required bound to be almost a complete meal viduals.

THE

MIE following notes an vita- mins may interest readers: Just an ordinary mixed diet and

of Vitamin A is present in dairy pro- also the dirt given in varinus all in itself. This reculls the stories

Scottish students who started off for ducts and codliver all. Its absence The work is all the more valu- ments and diseases.

the university provided with a large lowers the resistance to disease. uble in that it does not base

Set out on the left of this page is bot of oatmeal which had to be their a fair average specimen of a diet for staple diet during term. These were yolk, pens, beans. Its absence may the diet only on the amount of

Vitamin B occurs in milk egg- protein. fal, and carbohydrate, women in general health. The thin ne sturdy young men possessing a or sugar which it contains, but woman should add to Dils as much good set of teeth and a muscular cause nerve disease.

she can frame, whilst their mental prowess Vitamin C occurs in fresh fruits it also stresses the necessity or extra dairy produce as

was beyond doubt.

sanct vegetables. especially cltrus the protective foods. In other

Farther down the diet list we are fruits, tomatoes, lettuer. It prevents words there should be a daily ration of fruit or fresh vege- FIRST breakfast is round 7 "Soups" coming in as dessert. These scurvy.

a.m. and second breakfast are usually fruit or other Juices Vitamin D in dairy products, cod- tables and dairy produce, eggs at 10 or 11.m. Naturally, many thickened with potato starch. Rose- Iver oil. It helps to make bloud and or fish.

That is, no dict ean of the items will appear strange to hips soup is made from the hips of bone.

mrest,

MENUS

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FOR

A

WEEK

Note.--This diet, used in Sweden, is for people in general health.

· should take as much extra dairy produçc as they can digest.

BREAKFAST

Everyday

!

Sunday

Monday

First breakfast: Outgruel.

Breakfast: Bread, butter, er rquivalent, Lea

chocolate.

or

One CEE. mlik chocalate with whipped cream.

DINNER

Bread,

Meatballs with gravy, one alire tomato and mashed potators or chicken stew or veal stew with lemon sauce and mashed pota- tres.

Thickened fruit juler or apple sauce with good milk.

Small ter of cold meat Omelette with creamed caull- with slice of tomato. Gruel flower or with creamed spinach. Nice pudding with sauge or soup of uppies with whipped crçam and sat rusks.

or mlik.

Tuesday

1-2 K.

MI

Wednesday

Smail slice of cold meat. Onlgrust or milk.

Thursday

1-2 eggs. MHK.

Small slee of rold meat, slice of toniato.

Friday

Saturday

1-2 Pres.

Mik.

Hoiled fish with butter sauce and mashed potatoes or fish pudding with sandwich and potatoes. Vegetarian spinach soup or soup

of rolled oats with prunes.

Thin women

SUPPER

Bread, buller, or its equiva- lent, and milk.

with Food Rice` porridge milk or porridge on rice and apples cooked in water.

Oatmeal.

Feled oatmeal.

Veal stew with rice and mashed Porridge of rye flour with

potatoes.

Warm or colif soup of fruit juice-

or "rasekins" soup with whipped cream and rusks.

÷

Cod sirak

Hollandale with sauce and mashed potators. Egg nogs or taploca gruck with CKER or farina pudding with sauce of thickened fruit juice.

Omelette with creamed splnach or small meat balls, our slice of tomato and mashed potatoes or creamed carrots. ? Frull soup (of dried fruit).

Fish with parsley satice or melt- ed butter and chopped bard- boiled eggs, and mashed pola- tnes. Vegetarian soup or puree with toast or gruel with eggs.

syrup.

Oatmeal.

Fried oatmeal.

Every day an afternoon meal with coffee, or milk with coffee, cake and bread, or ruaks.

Dinner

at

by X. M. Boulestin

PEOPLE often rack their brains about how to cater for two. They mean, of course, quickly cooked, easily a meal which is econmical, served; something which can be prepared without any special cooling utensils, within half an hour, more of

less.

what to do.

Oatmeal..

the Double

removed and cut in smallish pieces). Cook for a few minutes, season, add chopped parsley and the julee which has meanwhile come out of the meat in the dish, and put all round the escalopes.

like.

Serve beiled or sleamed potatoes with it if you

Mutton Chops

FRY or grill the mutton chops as preferred: again this is only a question of minutes. Meanwhile, cook a handful of spaghetti. This is "They are at a loss, they say, and simply do not know cooked in boiling saited water; in eight minutes it is Drain it well, put it back in the pan, add a good have neither the time nor the inclination to spend hours piece of butter, a small slice of lean hum eut very thin over a fire." and if she does not add, crisgly, "Now, like matches, and a few chopped gheriting; warm half a what about it?" she means' It.

Well, it is difficult to cook a real meal in less than minute and serve with the mutton chops. one hour, but if we are satisfied with one dish it can be Potato Cake done without much trouble with only one small pan and

I am a business woman," writes a reader,: "and I ready.

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And, of course, we can always take any recipes for do to finish the meal, say after cold meat and salad. four people and reduce the quantifies by half, choosing Boil the potatoes in salted water In their skins.

When cooked, peel them.

a dish which is not complicated to prepare.

That dish must be complete in itself, so that if we'

Pound the potatoes in a bowl. Add salt, pepper, have a little hors-d'oeuvre before, and cheese for a cake a good piece of butter, two eggs (for one pound of pota- bought on the way home), our meal is pleasant and toes), a little hot milk to moisten and two tablespoonfuls satisfying.

The following will be of some use to two people. anxious to dine quickly before a show:

Escalopes of Veal

of grated cheese.

Mix well, put in a dreproof dish and cook in a moderate over 11 the top is nicely browned.. Eggs sur le Plat

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TAKE two escalopes of veal and flatten them

HAVE a few chicken Hvers, two for each ALL well. Melt a piece of butter the size of a

person. Cut them in three or four pieces small egg; when at the foaming stage put in the escalopes, and cook them in butter: in two or three minutes they Cook them on brie side frat.

are ready.

Meli a small piece of butter in a fireproof dish; When the edge all round is showing white, turn the escalopes on to the other alde, and season with salt and break four eggs in it; cook them alowly on the fire, pepper the side aiready corked. Turn again twice more When they are half done, dispose the pieces of chicken to brown them lightly.

vors all round, and finish by cooking two or three

The whole cooking takes only a few minutes. Re minutes in the oven. zmove them and put them in the serving-dish.

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