Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1910 — HOW TO REDUCE THE FLESH [ARTICLE]

HOW TO REDUCE THE FLESH

Strenuous Methods Coupled With Patience Are a Necessity—Reducing the Diet.

Strenuous methods are methods demanding patient, unceasing self-con-trol and deprivation. They must not be foolish methods, if one is to preserve one’s health. Too rapid reduction is decidedly dangerous for any one, and any reduction is dangerous, without the advice of a physician, for on§ who is not well. Moreover, every Individual must select her own method and ’learn from experience which one will help her. It is usually a pretty safe experiment to cut one’s menu in half —one egg instead of two in the morning, one slice of toast instead of two, one helping instead of two at dinner, etc. Most of us undoubtedly eat too much, and reducing the diet, while leaving us hungry at first most of the time, cannot do any harm if not carried to extremes. Moreover, it is pretty sure to be effectual. If In addition to that we give up starches, sweets, and butter, taking dry toast instead of hot or cold bread, and drinking no water with <our meals, the results are bound to be satisfactory.— Harper’s Bazar.