Diet Tips for a Beautiful Female Figure.

Diet and exercise are the two main essentials innonfattening vegetables and fruits. Do not be
making and keeping the figure beautiful. Noafraid of drinking plenty of water. But do not
woman can reduce weight, improve a clumsy andexceed your calorie allowance. Without further
ungainly figure, through exercise alone. Diet comestheory we advise the woman who wishes to eat
first. Comparatively few women need fattening.and grow thin to avoid the following liquids and
What most need is reduction.foods.
FIRST AID FOR THE THINTHE "KEEP OFF" SIGN FOR THE STOUT
Yet for those whose figure needs building up andShun water during mealsit makes you eat more.
filling out, the following facts should be borned inDrink all you want between meals. Rich sodas
mind. First, relax mentally. Worry and nervousmust be avoided. But coffee in moderation and
tension use up calories the calorie is the unit byskim milk are not harmful. But every woman
which we measure heat and food very rapidly,should know that all alcoholic drinks make her
and tend to reduce weight below normal.fatter if she is fat and thinner if she is thin, thus
Secondly, sleep enough and breathe fresh air inserving no good purpose. Each bit of food you
plenty. Third, exercise, to stimulate the appetiteeat beyond what your system and your normal
and aid all the organs of the body to do theirweight, figure and calorie requirements demand, is
work. Fourth, eat more of the foods that are highfattening. Candy, pie, cakes, ice cream, whipped
in food value. Butter, sugar, cream and creamcream, candied sweet potatoes, cheese, rice,
sauce on vegetables, cod-liver oil and olive oil, arebutter, fresh and white bread, rich meats, thick
all fattening.gravies and nuts are fattening.
FIRST AID FOR THE FAT"Keep off" fried foods, bacon, ham, pork, and all
Do not cultivate fallacies, if you are fat and wishthings made of flour, macaroni, dried beans,
to reduce your figure in accord with the normalpuddings, pastries and custards. But there are
and ideal body measurements, . Shun antifatexcellent beefsteak or lean meat, fruit and milk
patent medicines and quack "cures." Often theydiets, the fruit diet especially being excellent for
are based on mercury, arsenic or thyroid extract.reduction. An occasional fast day, or certain days
Shun Epsom salts baths and too many Turkishof low caloric eating a week are also good. A
baths. They do harm and no good. The reductionrapid method to reduce the overplus of calories is
of calories is the real secret ofsuccessful fata diet of baked potatoes and a glass of skim milk,
reduction, and a key to that unit of measurementthree times daily, for a week at a time. Or,
will enable you to bring your figure within theinstead of fasting altogether for a day, drink a
proper limits, to keep your figure beautiful. Theglass of buttermilk every three hours. Again, small
whole point is to know how many calories of foodhelpings of favorite fattening foods, or the
you need per day. Now, normally, a woman whodropping of one thing for another, will help attain
does not "work" in any actual sense of the word,the end which is the reduction of your calorie
can do with 1,600 to 1,800 calories per day. If sheoverplus. This is the whole secret of reducing fat
follows some sedentary occupation, 2,000 toand bringing the figure to its normal physical best,
2,200 calories will suffice her. If her businessits legitimate beauty of outline, where diet is
requires walking, standing or any lighter manualconcerned.
labor, she can run her calorie allowance up toWHAT THE OBESE CAN EAT
2,500. If she performs hard physical labor, she isA number of excellent books which deal in great
entitled to 2,500 to 3,000 calories. All this isdetail with the different ways of controlling
normally speaking.thecalories, of reducing weight and fat, are easily
But if you are too fat, if you wish to bring backavailable. We have gone into some details
your figure to its rightful lines, you must knowourselves, although diet and fat reduction is here
what your ideal net weight should be in order toonly considered in its relation to physical beauty. In
cut off the number of calories of food you dothe books already mentioned, numerous "sample
not need.menus," etc., will be found.
Among the kinds of food, note that Proteins,Foods you can eat, and still feel you are not
which build tissue and yield energy, may store fat.betraying your figure, include: (1) Any meat or
Proteins are contained in meat, fish, fowl, nuts,game, save pig. (2) All seafood, including lobster.
milk, cheese, vegetables. Fats (animal fats, oils,(3) Fruit, with the exception of grapes and
chocolate, nuts) are stored by the body as fat.bananas. (4) Salads and meat jellies. (5)
So are Carbohydrates (sugars, starches, includingTomatoes, peppers, olives, celery, cucumber, chili
bread, cereals, potatoes, corn, etc.). Vitamins,sauce and Worcestershire. (6) All fruit desserts.
food substances needed for growth, occur inBeauty and health go hand in hand. Your skin,
animal fats, but not in vegetable ones, as also inyour hair, your figure, if not healthy, rob your
eggs, milk, butter and meat, vegetable outerloveliest features of their charm. Make health the
skins, grain germs and fruits.cornerstone of an intelligent study and cultivation
BALANCE IN DIETof every iota of beauty which you have. Physical
These kinds of food must be balanced. If youbeauty, in the best sense, means well-rounded
balance them properly, you can reduce yourphysical development on a health basis. Make the
figureto normal without injuring health or keepingmost of your figure and every charm you,
to a monotonous food diet. Proteins you mustindividually, may possess. Such is the gospel of
eat, but neither to excess nor the reverse. Andthis article. If its teachings be followed, power
you must eat Vitamins, which abound inbeauty's choicest secret will be your reward.