Physical Beauty, how to Keep it Volume 285,

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...very little sugar and cream or a moderate quantity of milk or crushed fruit. All THE CHARM OF THE FACE IS MORE LARGELY DETERMINED BY THE TEXTURE AND QUALITY OF THE SKIN THAN BY THE SHAPE OF THE FEATURES. liquids used at meals should be taken separately as drinks and neither used to aid in swallowing nor served with the food. There is no necessity to make a martyr of yourself by wholly tabooing any particular food. Butter, sugar, bread and potatoes may all be used in a reducing diet if they are used sparingly. However, 0if you find that you can wholly eliminate any of these filling and staple foods it will aid matters to do so. Fat meats had best be entirely-eliminated as well as all vegetable fats and oils. Salads should be dressed with lemon juice and vinegar rather than with salad oils or dressings made of oil. Other than fats there are no foods that I insist on your eliminating altogether, but if by some simple change in your diet you are able to make a big reduction in the total quantity of foods that cause fattening it will be better than to remember a long list of do's and don'ts. Just as the elimination of one of the three meals may be sufiicient to give the desired results in reducing so also may be the elimination of bread. This is true, not because bread is more fattening than other foods, but because the way it is used causes us to eat it in large quantities. Fat people often insist that they do not eat more than other people. It is true that some people who overeat do not get fat because they fail to assimilate the food eaten or consume the excess substance by ceaseless activity. But it is not true that fat people do not overeat and it is a scientific absurdity to claim that they do not. They may under-exercise and...