What to Eat to be Thin.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 260, 7 November 1906, Page 6

What to Eat to be Thin.

We who are fat may look to the French for helpful hints, writes a woman who is a professional physical culturist. The French women are the thinnest ia the world, and yet they eat the most. But what do they cat? That is the crux of the situation. They ea.t almost no meat. They cat many green salads, and they nearly subsist on vegetables.

Vegetables contain, so little that is solid that when we live chiefly on vegetables we may be said to be on a water diet. And yet these vegetables contain many ingredients that go to the building of the. body as surely as bricks build a. wall. Spinach, for instance, contains much iron, which creates red corpuscles in the blor>d. Carrots are as valuable nutriment as spinach. Cabbage may be classed with Ihe food trinity. Beans arc more nourishing than beef. The healthiest family I know has been brought up on the despised and beneficent onion.

Eat onions in any way you like. They are most effective when raw. Eat them in sandwiches. Some who have the onion ha-bit eat fhem with salt, as readily as they would an apple. But, however you prefer them, be sure to eat many onions and often. The objectors I always ajtswer: "Look for a. person who eats onions, habitually, see what a good figure and superb complexion she has, and you will be a convert."