| Diet
Tips for a beautiful female figure |
By:
Michael Fortomas |
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Diet
and exercise are the two main essentials in making and
keeping the figure beautiful. No woman can reduce
weight, improve a clumsy and ungainly figure, through
exercise alone. Diet
comes first. Comparatively few women need fattening.
What most need is reduction.
FIRST AID FOR THE THIN
Yet for those whose figure needs building up and
filling out, the following facts should be born in
mind. First, relax mentally. Worry and nervous tension
use up calories — the calorie is the unit by which
we measure heat and food — very rapidly, and tend to
reduce weight below normal. Secondly, sleep enough and
breathe fresh air in plenty. Third, exercise, to
stimulate the appetite and aid all the organs of the
body to do their work. Fourth, eat more of the foods
that are high in food value. Butter, sugar, cream and
cream sauce on vegetables, cod-liver oil and olive
oil, are all fattening.
FIRST AID FOR THE FAT
Do not cultivate fallacies, if you are fat and wish to
reduce your figure in accord with the normal and ideal
body measurements, . Shun anti-fat patent medicines and
quack "cures." Often they are based on
mercury, arsenic or thyroid extract. Shun Epsom salts
baths and too many Turkish baths. They do harm and no
good. The reduction of calories is the real secret of
successful fat reduction, and a key to that unit of
measurement will enable you to bring your figure
within the proper limits, to keep your figure
beautiful. The whole point is to know how many
calories of food you need per day. Now, normally, a
woman who does not "work" in any actual
sense of the word, can do with 1,600 to 1,800 calories
per day. If she follows some sedentary occupation,
2,000 to 2,200 calories will suffice her. If her
business requires walking, standing or any lighter
manual labor, she can run her calorie allowance up to
2,500. If she performs hard physical labor, she is
entitled to 2,500 to 3,000 calories. All this is
normally speaking.
But if you are too fat, if you wish to bring back your
figure to its rightful lines, you must know what your
ideal net weight should be in order to cut off the
number of calories of food you do not need.
Among the kinds of food, note that Proteins, which
build tissue and yield energy, may store fat.
Proteins are contained in meat, fish, fowl, nuts,
milk, cheese, vegetables. Fats (animal fats, oils,
chocolate, nuts) are stored by the body as fat. So are
Carbohydrates (sugars, starches, including bread,
cereals, potatoes, corn, etc.). Vitamins, food
substances needed for growth, occur in animal fats,
but not in vegetable ones, as also in eggs, milk,
butter and meat, vegetable outer skins, grain germs
and fruits.
BALANCE IN DIET
These kinds of food must be balanced. If you balance
them properly, you can reduce your figure
to normal without injuring health or keeping to a
monotonous food diet. Proteins you must eat, but
neither to excess nor the reverse. And you must eat
Vitamins, which abound in nonfattening vegetables and
fruits. Do not be afraid of drinking plenty of water.
But do not exceed your calorie allowance. Without
further theory we advise the woman who wishes to eat
and grow thin to avoid the following liquids and
foods.
THE "KEEP OFF" SIGN FOR THE STOUT
Shun water during meals—it makes you eat more. Drink
all you want between meals. Rich sodas must be
avoided. But coffee in moderation and skim milk are
not harmful. But every woman should know that all
alcoholic drinks make her fatter if she is fat and
thinner if she is thin, thus serving no good purpose.
Each bit of food you eat beyond what your system and
your normal weight, figure and calorie requirements
demand, is fattening. Candy, pie, cakes, ice cream,
whipped cream, candied sweet potatoes, cheese, rice,
butter, fresh and white bread, rich meats, thick
gravies and nuts are fattening.
"Keep off" fried foods, bacon, ham, pork,
and all things made of flour, macaroni, dried beans,
puddings, pastries and custards. But there are
excellent beefsteak or lean meat, fruit and milk
diets, the fruit diet especially being excellent for
reduction. An occasional fast day, or certain days of
low caloric eating a week are also good. A rapid
method to reduce the over plus of calories is a diet of
baked potatoes and a glass of skim milk, three times
daily, for a week at a time. Or, instead of fasting
altogether for a day, drink a glass of buttermilk
every three hours. Again, small helpings of favorite
fattening foods, or the dropping of one thing for
another, will help attain the end — which is the
reduction of your calorie over plus. This is the whole
secret of reducing fat and bringing the figure to its
normal physical best, its legitimate beauty of
outline, where diet is concerned.
WHAT THE OBESE CAN EAT
A number of excellent books which deal in great detail
with the different ways of controlling the
calories, of reducing weight and fat, are easily
available. We have gone into some details ourselves,
although diet and fat reduction is here only
considered in its relation to physical beauty. In the
books already mentioned, numerous "sample
menus," etc., will be found.
Foods you can eat, and still feel you are not
betraying your figure, include: (1) Any meat or game,
save pig. (2) All seafood, including lobster. (3)
Fruit, with the exception of grapes and bananas. (4)
Salads and meat jellies. (5) Tomatoes, peppers,
olives, celery, cucumber, chili sauce and
Worcestershire. (6) All fruit desserts.
Beauty and health go hand in hand. Your skin, your
hair, your figure, if not healthy, rob your loveliest
features of their charm. Make health the cornerstone
of an intelligent study and cultivation of every iota
of beauty which you have. Physical beauty, in the best
sense, means well-rounded physical development on a
health basis. Make the most of your figure and every
charm you, individually, may possess. Such is the
gospel of this article. If its teachings be followed,
power— beauty's choicest secret — will be your
reward.
Michael Fortomas is a teacher of Biology and a
freelance journalist - writing about health, the
environment and development - issues he cares deeply
about. His Free Guide "151 Beauty Tips" is a
look at specific tips, old and new, to help women meet
the current perception of our societal definition of
beauty.
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